The time-delay or phase-shift effects crucial to the operation of ordinary doorbells and buzzers can be employed to sustain a Foucault (or other) pendulum in a very simple manner, not involving any electrical contacts. Some new electrical effects as well as the pendulum itself are discussed.
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Electrical components
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1953
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