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 ...

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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Dim lights in order to make the electron beam more visible. Wire up the heater and accelerator contacts (and also deflector contacts, if desired) on the tube to the power supply (or supplies). If ...