COSI Center of Science and Industry in Columbus
Surface tension of water molecules illustrated in this exhibit.
“It turns out that this effect was already studied for the first time in 1833 by the famous French physicist Félix Savart and has fascinated many great physicist ever since (Boussinesq (1869), Taylor (1959) and, recently, Clanet (2001)). They found that the shape of the bell can be understood as an delicate interplay between inertia, surface tension and gravity” click for more information from a physicist‘s perspective