What did Millikan's experimental apparatus look like?
1 Answer
May 1, 2014
Here is a photo of Millikan's laboratory setup.
upload.wikimedia.org
And here's a photo of the apparatus itself.
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Here's a diagram of his apparatus, taken from one of his papers, with some modern annotations.
hep.physics.indiana.edu
Compare this with modern teaching diagrams such as the one below.
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