Dowse Me A River Or The Dowse Of Physics
October, 1980
Dowsing is making a big comeback. Dowsing? you ask. Isn't that where a guy holds a forked stick over the ground and waits for some sort of vibrations in the stick to indicate the location of an underground well? Well, yes. That's it, more or less. Actually, the term dowsing can apply to any method of using a nonelectronic hand-held instrument--such as a pendular bob on the end of a string, for instance--to find anything; a subterranean stream, a load of mineral ore, a buried sewer pipe or electr...
