During the past three decades there has been considerable interest in the tensile strength of liquids. However, it is not generally realized that some pioneer experiments on the subjection of liquids to tension were carried out during the last century. Reynolds was one of the workers in this field and he was able to illustrate and measure the tension that a column of liquid could sustain. In the present paper this work of Reynolds is described and assessed and is compared with some of the other related work published in French journals in the last century.
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1979
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