Hoover Tower is a 285 feet (87 m) structure on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. The tower houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, an archive collection founded by Herbert Hoover before he became President of the United States. Hoover had amassed a large collection of materials related to early 20th century history; he donated them to Stanford, his alma mater, to found a “library of war, revolution and peace”.
Sometime prior to Dr. Jack Thorne‘s retirement from Stanford University, Dr. Thorne apparently once took his students to the top of the Hoover Tower to drop eggs from the top to test the law of gravity, resulting in splattered eggs all over the ground.
