Collection

Crookes' mill-wheel tube, 1888

PART OF:: Twenty four electrical radiometers illustrating Sir W.Crookes' research on electrical discharges in a vacuum

Made:: 1878-1888 in London

inventor:: William Crookes

maker:: Charles H. Gimingham

Crookes' mill-wheel tube

Details

Category:: Electricity and Magnetism

Object Number:: 1888-169/54

type:: crookes tubes, cathode-ray demonstration tubes and electrical discharge tubes

credit:: Sir William Crookes

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