Masked intruders who held Olympic cyclist Mark Cavendish at knifepoint as they robbed his house must repay more than £750,000 ...

But there was a problem: Nobody could figure out a number for G. Then, in 1797, physicist Henry Cavendish began what became known as the "Cavendish experiments." Using an object called a torsion ...

At the end of the 18th century, the British scientist Henry Cavendish measured the force of gravity between two objects for the first time in a laboratory. The objects in question were lead balls ...

This is the only picture of Henry Cavendish, and the reason is that he was very uncomfortable about sitting for portraits, in fact he never did it. So this was done mainly by an artist who ...

THE Cambridge edition of the scientific papers of Henry Cavendish is much more than a mere reprint. In 1879 an edition of the electrical researches was published, a work to which Clerk Maxwell ...

In 1797 Henry Cavendish, one of Great Britain’s leading scientists, built a contraption to weigh the world. At the time, Earth’s mass was unknown, as was its composition. Was it mostly solid rock?

This value was experimentally determined by Henry Cavendish in the 18th century to be the extemely small force of 6.67 x 10-11 Newtons between two objects weighing one kilogram each and separated ...

G puts an absolute value on the attraction. It was first measured in a laboratory in 1798 by British scientist Henry Cavendish using a device that determines the twisting of a wire due to the ...

To find out the actual masses of planets we had to wait for Lord Henry Cavendish’s experiment in 1797. He set up an experiment with two 150kg lead balls representing planets, and two smaller ...