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#10111After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access
cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
#10112After this was written there appeared a remarkable posthumous memoir that
throws some doubt on Millikan's leading role in these experiments. Harvey
Fletcher (1884-1981), who was a graduate student at the University of Chicago,
at Millikan's suggestion worked on the measurement of electronic charge for
his doctoral thesis, and co-authored some of the early papers on this subject
with Millikan. Fletcher left a manuscript with a friend with instructions
that it be published after his death; the manuscript was published in
Physics Today, June 1982, page 43. In it, Fletcher claims that he was the
first to do the experiment with oil drops, was the first to measure charges on
single droplets, and may have been the first to suggest the use of oil.
According to Fletcher, he had expected to be co-authored with Millikan on
the crucial first article announcing the measurement of the electronic
charge, but was talked out of this by Millikan.
-- Steven Weinberg, "The Discovery of Subatomic Particles"

Robert Millikan is generally credited with making the first really
precise measurement of the charge on an electron and was awarded the
Nobel Prize in 1923.
#10113After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is,
indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem.
#10114 Against his wishes, a math teacher's classroom was remodeled. Ever
since, he's been talking about the good old dais. His students planted a small
orchard in his honor; the trees all have square roots.
#10115Air is water with holes in it.
#10116Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose.
#10117Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire
telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this?
And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
#10118Alexander Graham Bell is alive and well in New York, and still waiting
for a dial tone.
#10119Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.
-- Philippe Schnoebelen
#10120All Finagle Laws may be bypassed by learning the simple art of doing
without thinking.
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