Léon Foucault pendulum suspended from the roof of the Panthéon, Paris. The experiment caused a sensation in both the learned and popular worlds, and ""Foucault pendulums"" were suspended in major cities across Europe and America and attracted crowds. In the following year he used (and named) the gyroscope as a conceptually simpler experimental proof. In 1855, he received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society for his 'very remarkable experimental researches'. Earlier in the same year he was made "physicien" (physicist) at the imperial observatory at Paris. In September 1855 he discovered that the force required for the rotation of a copper
SS City of Manchester (1851) built 1935, sunk 28 February 1942 by Japanese submarine I-153 off Java 6. "City of Manchester", built 1950, sold 1971 and renamed "Kavo Yerakes" 7. "City of Manchester", so named 1984-1985, before and after named "Hassel Werder". SS City of Manchester (1851) The SS "City of Manchester" was an iron-hulled single screw liner built 1851 by Tod & McGregor, Glasgow, Scotland and the second such ship owned by the Inman Line (officially the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam Ship Company). It was an improved version of their first ship "City of Glasgow" which had been launched a year earlier. Steerage passengers