Subj : Re: Wegman's To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Sep 30 2019 12:25:40 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 20-Sep-2019 09:02 <=- One more from Wake Forest on 30 September... now about 8:25am... BM>>>>> I got interested in the 'Millikan Oil Drop Experiment' somehow when I BM>>>>> was probably in Junior High, maybe late elementary school. Have a BM>>>>> book (wonder if packed away in a box in NH?) which explains it, plus BM>>>>> how to build one's own. Was going to. NB>>>> And possibly the book you have is out-of-print now, too... :) NB>> (snip) BM>>> That I'm fairly certain of: received in the late 60's/early 70's, so BM>>> around 50 years ago. LIS it didn't occur to even look for it. NB>>> Is it something that your mother might be able to locate for you...? BM>> Probably not other than "might be stored in this bookcase". I BM>> couldn't give a description of the book the project as in; easy enough BM>> to get the experiment plans on-line, just might have other stuff of BM>> interest in it. And sometimes the old project plans have the parts I BM>> have in stock. (I still have a bunch of tubes stored away.) NB>> Still, somewhat of a possibility, one way or another... ;) BM> Possibly. At this point depends more on the need -- science project BM> with Autumn? (That'll be several years.) Gives you a little time to get around to looking for it..... ;) NB>>>> He's been back since... and while you were gone, did post quite the NB>>>> treatise on thunderstorms.... I saved it to a textfile for reference NB>>>> later, although it didn't exactly answer our wonderings... :) (snip) NB>>> If I don't think of it right away, this message will remind me... BM>> Probably will! NB>> And it indeed did... so, forthwith.... here's the message: BM> OK, thanks! BM> As I did... NB>> As I said... it was quite the treatise.... BM> Yes, though simplified in a way average person could understand. Pretty much... :) Even if it didn't really speak to what we were wondering about.... ttyl neb .... Not only does history repeat itself - historians repeat each other. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .