A jetliner can weigh over 300 tons, so why doesn’t it just drop out of the air?

3M’s SVP of Corporate Affairs, Denise Rutherford explains the Bernoulli principle and how without it, planes (and birds) couldn’t fly.

Daniel Bernoulli was a Swiss scientist and mathematician who documented important scientific principles in the eighteenth century. Particularly interesting was his work in fluid dynamics, by which the Bernoulli Principle was discovered. While Bernoulli discovered that pressure decreases when the flow speed increases, it was actually a man named Leonhard Euler who figured out Bernoulli’s equation in 1752. Nevertheless, Bernoulli’s work influenced pivotal technology that has changed our world forever, from carburetors in vehicles to airplane wings.