In 1897, physicist J.J. Thomson performed a cathode-ray tube experiment, which led to the discovery of electrons.

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In the mid 1800's scientists successfully passed an electric current through a vacuum in a glass tube. They saw a glow from the tube that seemed to emanate from the negatively charged plate called the ...

In 1897, English physicist Joseph John Thomson discovered electrons while conducting experiments with cathode-ray tubes. He called electrons “corpuscles”. Cathode Ray Tube.

For old-timers, CRTs — cathode ray tubes — were fixtures as kids sat in front of TVs watching everything from Howdy Doody to Star Trek.

One of those was his invention of the cathode-ray tube, also known as the Braun’s tube. In an elegant paper published on February 15, 1897, Braun described the design and realisation of this tube.

The sets themselves were of a heavy hardwood outer design with large cathode ray tubes to receive the electronic image. The Marconiphone 701 from 1936 had a mahogany cabinet and dense internal ...

Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device News This Video Game Was Made in the 1940s Do you see that retro-looking device above? That's a cathode ray tube amusement device, one of the one of the first … ...

CAPE TOWN. Royal Society of South Africa, July 17.—Dr. A. Jasper Anderson in the chair.—A. Ogg: The electrostatic deflection in a cathode-ray tube. In the ordinary Thomson cathode-ray tube for ...