Subj : Millikan's  was: Wegman's
To   : Nancy Backus
From : Barry Martin
Date : Wed Oct 16 2019 10:52:00


Hi Nancy!

 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>>    (snip)
 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.)
 NB>> Gives you a little time to get around to looking for it.....  ;)
 BM> But First I need to clean the Electronics Workbench area so there's
 BM> room to build a project -- whichever gets decided upon: doens't have to
 BM> be an electronics one.  She's too young to be assigned a science fair
 BM> project.
 NB> Give her just a couple years......  ;)

Right.  At this point she's very interested in animals - not just cats
and dogs but birds, butterflies, insects....  More the veterinarian side
of things than the common house pet side.  We'll see how that 
progresses; encourage but not push.


 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... :)
 NB>    (snip)
 NB>>> And it indeed did...  so, forthwith.... here's the message:
 BM>> OK, thanks!
 BM>> <snipped for here but kept for reference>
 NB>> As I did... <G>
 BM> And glad you did!
 NB> And for once, saved to its own file, to make it easier to
 NB> locate... also made it easier to forward back to you... ;)

And that's how I ran low on hard drive space over the years: this looks 
interesting, this is worthwhile to have handy.... <g>


 NB>>> As I said... it was quite the treatise....  <G>
 BM>> Yes, though simplified in a way average person could understand.
 NB>> Pretty much... :)  Even if it didn't really speak to what we were
 NB>> wondering about.... <G>
 BM> Maybe Daryl is working on it!
 NB> Maybe, but I wouldn't count on it..... ;)

And now Daryl has additional Arkansas Square Dancing duties....


 BM> ... We specialize in precision guesswork.
 NB> I've seen some projects that looked to exemplify that method....
 NB> ;)

When were you here??!!

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