A Lifetime of Scientific Invention and Innovation Charles Vernon Boys (C1 1869-72) was renowned and celebrated throughout his life as a physicist and inventor, his major contributions to science being his invention of quartz fibre and his refinement of Newton’s gravitational constant. The key to the success of his many great achievements and scientific innovations lay in his wide-ranging curiosity, intellectual assiduity, immense dexterity and skill in instrument making, and mastery of experimentation. To tie in with the opening of the Beko Innovation Centre, Gráinne Lenehan, College Archivist, celebrates one of Marlborough’s earliest and most ingenious innovators.
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