Boys, Sir Charles Vernon

Boys, Sir Charles Vernon

▪ British physicist and inventor
born March 15, 1855, Wing, Rutland, Eng.
died March 30, 1944, St. Mary Bourne, Andover, Hampshire

      English physicist and inventor of sensitive instruments, known particularly for his utilization of the torsion of quartz fibres in the measurement of minute forces. This technique was applied in connection with his radiomicrometer (1888) for measuring radiant heat and also in connection with his elaboration (1895) of Henry Cavendish's experiment relating to the Newtonian constant of gravitation.

      Boys had earlier constructed an integraph (1881) for mechanically drawing the graph of an antiderivative of a given mathematical function. Among his inventions were an improved automatic recording calorimeter for testing manufactured gas (1905) and high-speed cameras for photographing rapidly moving objects, such as bullets and lightning discharges. He was knighted in 1935.

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