  Since the first appearance of general relativity in 1916, various experiments
have been conducted to test the theory. Due to the weakness of the interactions
involved, all of the documented tests were carried out in a gravitational field
generated by objects of an astronomical scale. We propose an idea for an
experiment that could detect purely general-relativistic effects in a
lab-generated gravitational field. It is shown that a set of dense
rapidly-revolving cylinders produce a frame-dragging effect substantial enough
to be two orders of magnitude away from the observable range of the next
generation of atomic interferometers. The metric tensor due to a uniform
rotating axisymmetric body in the weak-field limit is calculated and the phase
shift formula for the interferometer is derived. This article is meant to
demonstrate feasibility of the concept and stimulate further research into the
field of low-scale experiments in general relativity. It is by no means a fully
developed experiment proposal.
