Modern scientific ideas : especially in the idea of discontinuity / by Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S.

  • Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940.
Date:
1927
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Credit: Modern scientific ideas : especially in the idea of discontinuity / by Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when he decomposed liquids electrically. Thus all the evidence is confirmatory, and there is no doubt at all about the meaning of Millikan’s experiment. This is indeed perhaps the best and most accurate method—it is certainly the simplest to understand—of all the methods which have been devised for measuring the unit of electric charge, the fundamental discontinuity in the universe, the electron or atom of electricity.