Dyson engineers built a Christmas tree with floating ornaments

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Stan Schroeder
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When you work in a company best known for its vacuum cleaners, it's only logical that you build a Christmas tree using the power of wind.

It took six engineers at Dyson's headquarters in Malmesbury, Wiltshire an afternoon of work to build a 12-feet tall Christmas tree whose ornaments literally float in the air.

Dyson's engineers are using jets of wind to suspend the foam-made baubles in mid air, according to Western Daily Press. The idea is based on a fluid dynamics called the Bernoulli's principle, which states -- according to a Dyson engineer -- that "pressure in a liquid or gas decreases as it moves faster."

And though it looks relatively simple, the tree was not easy to design.

"We went through loads of iterations, but we finally settled on a design. Whether it was the weight of the baubles, or the angles of the pipes or 'branches', there was so much to consider," Will told Western Daily Press.

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