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Eötvös effect
In the early 1900s a German team from the Institute of Geodesy in Potsdam carried out gravity measurements on moving ships in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. While studying their results the Hungarian nobleman and physicist Lorand Roland Eötvös (1848-1919) noticed that the readings were lower when the boat moved eastwards, higher when it moved westward.
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