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 194
suggest that whenthe pressure is verylow, the cathoderays, instead of com-ing off uniformlyfrom the whole ofthe cathode, comeoff mainly fromplaces where thesurface density ofthe electricity isgreatest ; that is, from the edges of the cross,these edges forming, as it were, the effectivecathodes; and…
Electric discharges through gases · Electricity · Electric Conductivity
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