Description

Here is a diadem, decorated with pearls raised above the rim, produced by a drop of milk falling upon a plate covered with a thin layer of milk. In the land of splashes, what the scientist knows as Surface Tension is a sculptor in liquids, and fashions from them delicate shapes none the less beautiful because they are too ephemeral for any eye but that of the high-speed camera. Taken in 1936. (from "Flash!" (1939/1954), p. 111. (CC)