The discharge of electricity through gases : lectures delivered on the occasion of the sesquicentennial of Princeton University (1898)
Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940 · New York : Charles Scribner's sons · leaf 103
er, the other quadrant of which was connectedwith the earth. To screen E from external elec-tric influences, it was enclosed in a platinum tube, 1 Elster and Geitel, Wied. Ann., 38, p. 27, 1889. ELECTRIFICATION OF GASES 87 which was closed in by fine wire gauze, which,though it acted as an electric… … Fig. 10. charged up by a battery; the connection with thebattery was then broken, and the rate of leakobserved. When the arc was not passing, theinsulation was practically perfect. As soon, how-ever, as the arc was started, and as long as it con-tinued, the insulation of the gas gave way. Thereare,…
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