Eureka (word) "Eureka! Eureka!" after he had stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose, whereupon he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged. (This relation is "not" what is known as Archimedes' principle—that deals with the "upthrust" experienced by a body immersed in a fluid.) He then realized that the volume of irregular objects could be measured with precision, a previously intractable problem. He is said to have been so eager to share his discovery that he leapt out of his bathtub
Eureka Inn Eureka Inn The Eureka Inn in Eureka, California, is a four-story, 104-room Elizabethan Tudor Revival architectural style hotel, which opened in 1922. In 1982 the structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in February 1982. For both architectural and cultural reasons, the hotel is one of the most important buildings on the North Coast of California. In late September 2008 (after the inn had been closed more than four years), the Eureka Times-Standard reported that Libo Zhu purchased the Inn for $2.75 million. His business plan, reviewed by the Greater Eureka Chamber of Commerce, suggested that he