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Equipment to demonstrate the effect within laboratory

Eötvös wanted to make an instrument to demonstrate the effect within a laboratory, so he designed an extremely sensitive equipment named Eötvös-balance.

The device is a rotating balance with two masses. The inventiveness of the design lies in two features: first, Eötvös converted the advancing motion into rotational one.

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