THE PITCH DROP EXPERIMENT
John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/physics_museum/pitchdrop.shtml
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