Robert Fulcher worked as a technician in the Cavendish laboratory from 1877. According to Isobel Falconer’s (2014) history of the Cavendish, Fulcher,
…greatly improved the efficiency off several pieces of apparatus.
(Falconer, 2014)
Further reading
- Falconer, I. (2014). Cambridge and Building the Cavendish Laboratory. In R. Flood, M. McCartney, & A. Whitaker (Eds.), James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on his Life and Work. Oxford University Press.
- Schaffer, S. (1995). ACCURATE MEASUREMENT IS AN ENGLISH SCIENCE. In M. N. Wise (Ed.), The Values of Precision (pp. 135–172). Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv14163t2.10
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