On J.J. Thompson
Date Submitted: 12/18/2003 03:37:09
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 5 pages (1297 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 5 pages (1297 words)
J.J. Thomson
Science lecturers who traveled from town to town in the middle nineteenth century delighted audiences by showing them the ancestor of the neon sign. They took a glass tube with wires embedded in opposite ends . . . put a high voltage across . . . pumped out most of the air . . . and the interior of the tube would glow in lovely patterns. In 1859 a German physicist sucked out still more air with an improved pump and saw …
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