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Cavendish Laboratory : Maxwell's determination of the inverse square law

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Colour photograph of the apparatus used in Maxwell's determination of the inverse square law of electrostatics in 1887-8. The experiments were carried out with Donald MacAlister and resulted in an improvement by a factor of 1000 in the accuracy with which the inverse square law was known to hold good.</p>

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