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Crookes tube

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The Crookes Tube

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Crooke's Tube & Electrons

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High Voltage Tubes Episode 3: Crooks Tube and Electron Path Tube

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5H30.16 - Crookes' Tube

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Crookes tube

A Crookes tube is an early experimental electrical discharge tube, with partial vacuum, invented by English physicist William Crookes and others around 1869-1875, in which cathode rays, streams of electrons, were discovered.
  • How a Crookes tube works 

  • History 

  • The discovery of X-rays 

  • Experiments with Crookes tubes 

  • Maltese cross 

  • Perpendicular emission 

  • Deflection by electric fields 

  • Deflection by magnetic fields 

  • Paddlewheel 

  • Charge 

  • Anode rays 

  • Doppler shift 

  • Lenard window