The curvature method of determining the surface tension of liquids

Abstract

Lord Kelvin, in his lecture on capillarity (published in his 'Popular Lectures and Addresses'), describes this method as a practicable one for measuring the surfacetension of liquids. In the following account is described an arrangement by which this methdd is rendered a convenient and fairly accurate one, and the results of a series of determinations made by the method are tabulated.