Swiss scientist, Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782), demonstrated that, in most cases, the pressure in a liquid or gas decreases as the liquid or gas moves faster. This explains in part why a wing lifts ...
If you like trivia, you’ll be tickled to know the shower curtain effect can also be called Bernoulli’s Principle. In his 1738 book Hydrodynamica, Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli wrote pressure ...