Here is a fascinating, old device: Lord Kelvin’s water drop static electricity generator.

Here is a physics class demonstration of it.
Do my drops suffer from this distortion? Well, I don’t have such a generator built (yet), so I don’t have just this effect going on. But, I do believe that I see the shape of drops [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized by martinw Date 26 May, 2007
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When people think of high-speed photography, the name that most often comes to mind is Harold “Doc” Edgerton. And rightly so, as he contributed so much to the discipline.
However, in 1876, A. M. Worthington wrote a paper entitled “A Second Paper on The Forms Assumed by Drops of Liquids falling vertically on a Horizontal Plate”; [...]

Filed under: Photography, Uncategorized by martinw Date 1 May, 2007
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