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 190
laced in series and connected 174 CATHODE RAYS with the outsides of two Leyden jars. The insidesof these jars are connected with the terminals of aWimshurst machine; when sparks pass betweenthese terminals, the jars discharge, and electric cur-rents pass through the coils connecting their… … Fig. 32. motive forces cause a discharge to pass throughthe gas. The discharge produced in this way is thering discharge. (See Recent Researches in Elec-tricity and Magnetism, p. 92.) The bulbs are pumped until the pressure is suchthat when a and b are cathodes the dark spacecomplete^ fills the…
Electric discharges through gases · Electricity · Electric Conductivity
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