Foucaultpendel bij Verenigde Naties (1955) The Foucault Pendulum door J. Haringx en H. van Suchtelen Natlab-pendel slingert ‘eeuwig’ in VN-gebouw Slinger bewijst dat aarde draait Willem Bahler, a Dutch physicist, verifies the installation of the Foucault Pendulum in the main lobby of the General Assembly Building at UN Headquarters. The pendulum, a gift to the UN from the Government of the Netherlands, offers visual proof of the rotation of the Earth.