While it's a nice story, I seem to remember that it isn't true.
There was some article a while back that talked about the fact that measurements from the oil drop experiment pretty much moved as the input data got better.
Citations already exist in sibling comments. The linked StackOverflow questions also have further sources where people are trying to track down time-limited original sources.
You clearly couldn't be bothered to put in even a minimal amount of effort to follow the citations that have existed for 12 hours prior to your useless post.
I will give your post as much consideration as you gave mine.
There was some article a while back that talked about the fact that measurements from the oil drop experiment pretty much moved as the input data got better.