In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules(atomsonly.news)
532 points by mailyk | 185 comments
Substack essay on how Ben Franklin and Lord Rayleigh used oil spread on water to estimate the size of a single molecule.
#benjamin-franklin on Hacker News
2 stories tagged benjamin-franklin, newest first.
It’s an age of marvels(blog.plover.com)
408 points by pavel_lishin | 389 comments
Blog post by Mark Dominus imagining which modern inventions would or would not astonish Benjamin Franklin, from streetlights and the internet to Wikipedia and Moon landings.