I thought I'd heard of Bernoulli before.... Started conversation
Feb 14, 2003 When I was learning all about these 'ere compewter
thingies... I remembered there being a "Bernoulli Box" way way
back, that was used as a storage device... *quick internet
search later* Most of us identify Bernoulli drives with the 20
megabyte removable cartridges made by Iomega Corporation. This
technology, though, is based on a principle of physics that is
used every day. Bernoulli's Principle states that an increase in
the flow of a fluid on one side of a surface produces less
pressure on the other side, and a decrease in fluid flow on one
side results in an increase in pressure on the other side. For
example, a plane's wings are made so the speed of the airflow
above the wing is greater than the speed below it, the result
being that the pressure below the wing is greater than the
pressure above it, producing a lift that helps the plane take
off. Iomega used this principle in the Bernoulli Box by having a
flexible magnetic disk