Book:C.A. Coulson/Electricity/Fifth Edition/Errata

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Errata for 1958: C.A. Coulson: Electricity (5th ed.)

Historical Note on Electron

Chapter $\text {I}$: Preliminary Survey: $\S 1$. Electrostatics
The smallest electric charge which it is possible to obtain is that of the ordinary electron, discovered and measured for the first time by J.J. Thomson in $1897$.


Positron

Chapter $\text {I}$: Preliminary Survey: $\S 1$. Electrostatics
The smallest positive charge ... is on the proton; the same charge exists on the positive electron, a much lighter particle than the proton, but this particle is not stable ...