Soap Bubbles
and the Forces which Mould Them
Forfatter: F. R. S., A. R. S. M., C. V. Boys
År: 1890
Serie: Romance of Science Series
Sted: London
Sider: 178
UDK: 532
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THE FORCES WHICH MOULD THEM.
“ They went to sea in a sieve, they did,
In a sieve they went to sea s
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a sieve they went to sea.
* * * *
“ They sailed away in a sieve, they did,
In a sieve they sailed so fast,
With only a beautiful pea-green veil,
Tied with a riband by way of a sail,
To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
* * * *
And so on. You see that it is quite pos-
sible to go to sea in
a sieve—that is, if
the sieve is large
enough and the water
is not too rough—and
that the above lines
are now realized in
every particular (Fig.
6).
I may give one more
example of the power
of this elastic skin of
water. If you wish
to pour water from a
tumbler into a narrow-
Fig. 6.