The members of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia took their seats for their annual meeting last week in an atmosphere of ill-concealed excitement. Weeks before, the committee on awards had ...
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 ...
On January 12, 1896, three students at Davidson College experimented with x-rays. On January 6, 1896, the Associated Press announced that German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered a new form of ...
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 ...
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EXPERIMENTS have been carried out to determine the energy distribution among electrons originating in the cathode dark space of the glow discharge through gases. Two methods have been employed: a ...
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