Keywords: Cavendish Experiment.png en Drawing of torsion balance apparatus used by Henry Cavendish in the 'Cavendish Experiment' to measure the gravitational constant in 1798 This is a vertical section through the apparatus including the building that housed it Copy of Figure 1 from his 1798 paper 'Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth' published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London part II 88 p 469-526 21 June 1798 Alterations removed frame and caption compensated for shear distortion caused by scanning book converted to PNG http //books google com/books id zrkEAAAAMAAJ pg PA62 Cavendish H 1798 'Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth' in McKenzie A S ed Scientific Memoirs Vol 9 The Laws of Gravitation American Book Co 1900 p 62 on Google Books 1798-06-21 Henry Cavendish Public domain - author died in 1810 PD-old-100 Cavendish experiment History of physics Scientific Memoirs Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |