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Supposedly, an early Millikan oil drop experiment apparatus (in a basement at Caltech)
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Millikan's oil-drop experiments are justly regarded as a major contribution to twentieth-century physics. They established the quantization of electric charge, the existence of a fundamental unit of charge, and also measured that unit of charge precisely.
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