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 170
able,whatever the pressure. In the first place, what,when there was no magnetic field, was a thin pencilof rays, spreads out in the magnetic field into afan-shaped system of rays which may producephosphorescence over two or three inches of the 154 CATHODE RAYS glass of the bell-jar, though when… … ITig. 26. which suffer different deflections in the magneticfield. Again, when the rays are spread out by the mag-netic field, the luminosity seems to have a tendencyto condense along certain lines, so that the lumi-nosity in the gas had a streaky appearance, brightand dark streaks alternating.…
Electric discharges through gases · Electricity · Electric Conductivity
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