1879 · Cathode Ray Tube · Werk 225 von 1.871

A Crookes tube clamped on a stand in a London laboratory: a sealed elongated glass tube of pear shape, a disc cathode sealed into the narrow end with a wire lead, a flat metal Maltese cross electrode standing upright inside the tube in the path of the rays, the wide end of the glass glowing with fluorescence and carrying the sharp dark shadow of the cross, mercury vacuum pump and induction coil connected behind by wires.