- A
Geissler tube is a
precursor to
modern gas
discharge tubes,
demonstrating the
principles of
electrical glow discharge, akin to
contemporary neon lights...
- pump in the mid-1850's and in 1857, the
Geissler tube, made of gl**** and used as a low
pressure gas-discharge
tube;
these two
inventions were
critical technologies...
- of electrons, were discovered.
Developed from the
earlier Geissler tube, the
Crookes tube consists of a
partially evacuated gl**** bulb of
various shapes...
-
experiment with a
Geissler tube was
Julius Plücker, who
systematically described in 1858 the
luminescent effects that
occurred in a
Geissler tube. He also made...
-
evolution of the
earlier Geissler tube,
which is a
sealed gl****
tube containing a "rarefied" gas (the gas
pressure in the
tube is well
below atmospheric...
-
tried to
photograph Mark
Twain illuminated by a
Geissler tube, an
earlier type of gas
discharge tube. The only
thing captured in the
image was the metal...
-
using a
Geissler tube filled with
carbon dioxide. However, the
carbon dioxide tended to
break down.
Hence in
later lamps, the
Geissler tube was filled...
-
modern kerosene lamp. 1856 gl****blower
Heinrich Geissler confines the
electric arc in a
Geissler tube. 1867
Edmond Becquerel demonstrates the
first fluorescent...
-
Geissler sucked even more air out with an
improved pump, to a
pressure of
around 10−3 atm and
found that,
instead of an arc, a glow
filled the
tube....
- (killed by X-ray
exposure in the
course of his work)
Heinrich Geißler (invented the
Geissler tube) Jorg
Meyer Mitsugi Ohno
Joseph Patrick Slattery (radiography...