WAY SIDE NOTES.
[by an occasional correspondent.]
Under the title of " Applied Science," we have received the following from an eccentric scientific correspondent:—
" The force of gravitation—or of some similar natural law—is curiously exemplified in Akaroa. If a long pendulum were suspended over the town, the disc at the end of it would swing between Waeckerle's and Wagstaff's, stopping to take a drink at each intervening hotel. Scientific persons will remark that any such interruption in the swing of the pendulum mustof necessity produce a corresponding deviation ; and this is remarkably well shewn in actual facts. Gravitate, gentle reader, for a day in the manner above described, and you will find a startling deviation in your course, increasing with each succeedd ing swing. On]}' try it—the hotter the day the better —and possibly in the end you may fancy yourself a pendulum.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 121, 14 September 1877, Page 2
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142WAY SIDE NOTES. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 121, 14 September 1877, Page 2
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