Click to open image viewer. Replicas of Cavendish Lab. Apparatus (5, l. to r.); obj. ID no. EM.N-08013-A Thompson's cathode ray tube #2, EM.318206 Thompson's cathode ray tube #3, EM.N-08019 Rutherford ...
Professor Trowbridge's experiments with the cathode rays at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory have shown that the quality of glass constituting the Crookes tubes has very little to do with the ...
This apparatus, held in London's Science Museum, has some significant purpose — or curiosity value — in the history of physics. Can you guess what it is? This has been claimed to be the apparatus with ...
Click to open image viewer. Replicas of Cavendish Lab. Apparatus (5, l. to r.); obj. ID no. EM.N-08013-A Thompson's cathode ray tube #2, EM.318206 Thompson's cathode ray tube #3, EM.N-08019 Rutherford ...
Then, in 1895, the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen was tinkering with a vacuum tube that had two electrical connections, known as cathodes, attached to it. When he ran an electric current through the ...