The Cavendish Laboratory: 1876–1900

Early work on semiconductor quantum nanoelectronics in the Cavendish Laboratory.

J. J. Thomson and the Cavendish Laboratory in his Day

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The Cavendish Experiment

The quantities ml and ms are the masses of two objects whose spatial separation is R. The value of the constant of proportionality, G, was not known to Newton and, in fact, was not accurately determined until the latter half of the nineteenth century. The calculation of its value was based on the results of an experiment to determine the density of the earth performed by Henry Cavendish, and pu...

The Cavendish Experiment in General Relativity∗

Solutions of Einstein’s equations are discussed in which the “gravitational force” is balanced by an electrical force, and which can serve as models for the Cavendish experiment.

MARGARET CAVENDISH AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY by

It is often claimed that Margaret Cavendish was an anti-experimentalist who was deeply hostile to the activities of the early Royal Society—particularly in relation to Robert Hooke’s experiments with microscopes. Some scholars have argued that her views were odd or even childish, while others have claimed that they were shaped by her genderbased status as a scientific ‘outsider’. In this paper ...