This rare instrument is available for
display to industry professionals and
experts in mining exploration
– serving as a bridge between past innovation and future potential.

Where Science Meets Mystery
This exhibit invites you to explore the hidden forces beneath our feet—blending historic instruments, cutting-edge technology, and human curiosity. Journey from past to future as we uncover how gravity has guided discovery, and how it still holds secrets yet to be revealed.

This instrument was widely used in reconnaissance and detailed gravimetric work in the United States between 1922 and 1940.

At the peaks of its popularity, not less than 125 instruments were engaged in exploration for oil each year. 

Credit is given to the torsion balance for the discovery in the Gulf Coast of 79 oil fields and salt domes . 

The addition in oil reserves which should be credited entirely to the torsion balance amounts to 1,027,500,000 barrels. 

The pendulum and gravimeter should be given credit in the same area for the discovery of 108,000,000 barrels of oil during that same period.