Vacuum Discharge Tubes: Geissler, Crookes, Hittorf, de la Rive...

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Crookes "railroad"
Crookes "Railroad"
32'297 bytes
Crookes "Railroad" detail
Crookes "Railroad"
(detail)
64'332 bytes

"Railroad" in action
(start, ~27kV DC)
30'451 bytes

"Railroad" in action
(moving)
19'764 bytes
Crookes "Maltese Cross"
Crookes
"Maltese Cross"
47'016 bytes
Crookes "Maltese Cross"
Crookes
"Maltese Cross" 
43'432 bytes

Maltese Cross active
45'285 bytes

Maltese Cross active
55'324 bytes

Canal-Ray tube 1
18'341 bytes

Canal-Ray tube 1
(detail)
61'579 bytes

Canal-Ray tube 2 
28'774 bytes
de la Rive Egg
de la Rive Egg
72'965 bytes

Canal-Ray active
undeflected
57'201 bytes

Canal-Ray active
magnetically deflected
51'118 bytes

Canal-Ray active
magnetically deflected
47'846 bytes
de la Rive in
action is harder
to catch!

spectral tubes for
different gases
43'198 bytes

spectral tube for
Argon
26'137 bytes
Geissler Tubes
Geissler tubes, some
no more functional
53'705 bytes

LV spectral tubes for
Hg/Cd/10 + Cs/10
50'893 bytes

Jennings vacuum
capacitor 53pF/20kV
58'733 bytes

2 Jennings vacuum caps
53pF+65pF / 20kV 
50'973 bytes
kitchen table and tubes
Kitchen table with
discharge tubes
54'764 bytes
With the exception of
some of the Geissler
tubes, all material was
inherited from the late
Franz Bohnenblust ,
a true physics enthusiast!

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