Final answer:
Millikan's oil drop experiment allowed him to determine the charge on the electron and later the mass of the electron.
Step-by-step explanation:
In Millikan's oil drop experiment, he sprayed tiny drops of oil into a chamber and observed their motion using a microscope. By applying an electrical charge to the oil drops and adjusting the electric field strength, he was able to determine the charge on individual drops.
Using this data, Millikan concluded that the charge on an oil drop is quantized in units of -1.6 x 10-19 C. This allowed him to determine the charge on a single electron, and later he used the same data to determine the mass of the electron.