Release Message:  The pressure at a certain level in a fluid is proportional to the vertical distance to the surface of the liquid. Authored by Robert Boyle.

Description:  The pressure at a certain level in a fluid is proportional to the vertical distance to the surface of the liquid. Boyle's self-flowing flask, a perpetual motion machine, which appears to fill itself through siphon action ("hydrostatic perpetual motion") and involves the "hydrostatic paradox"[29] This is not possible in reality; a siphon requires its "output" to be lower than the "input".