Pitch drop experiment
Experimento de la gota de brea
- Date
- 1927 · confidence high
- Place
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Credited to
- Thomas Parnell
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A very long-running experiment demonstrating that pitch, although it looks solid, is in fact an extremely viscous liquid that flows and forms drops over years; begun by Thomas Parnell at the University of Queensland.
What it led to
- Guinness World Record for the longest continuously running laboratory experiment
- Public outreach on viscosity and non-Newtonian materials
- Replica experiments at other universities