Re: Show and Tell

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From: Peter Geschke (pgeschke7@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 16:30:42 PDT 

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:30:42 -0700
Subject: Re: Show and Tell
From: Peter Geschke <pgeschke7@comcast.net>
Message-ID: <BB73DEB1.1662%pgeschke7@comcast.net>

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> Subject: Show and tell
> From: "emuller" <emuller@exploratorium.edu>
> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:18:58 -0700
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> Pinholers,
>
> We have a new piece of mystery equipment to be identified.
> Please help our alumni figure out what this thing is.
> It can be view at:
>
> http://www.exploratorium.edu/ti/alumni/show_and_tell/
> It is in the alumni area, so use your "teacher" "institute" pass codes.

Doesn't it at least "look like" the apparatus for Millikan's oil drop
experiment? There are key things that are "missing", at least in my mind's
eye as I wonder where the atomizer would release the oil drops, and of
course we don't have a source of ionizing radiation (but you wouldn't store
that with this necessarily). Just a guess.

Pete Geschke
Mission San Jose HS
Fremont, CA

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