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Description: | LMP 220i (spurious Nat. Phil. departmental catalogue number, removed). Tesla's tube made by himself correct 28/2/08 (written on a paper label attached to the cathode end of the tube which is legible under uv light). DES TESLA,Nikola. circa 1892 New York, The United States of America. MANU TESLA,Nikola. circa 1892 New York, The United States of America. DES after GEISSLER,Johann,Heinrich,Wilhelm. 1855 Bonn, Germany. This tube designed and made by Nikola Tesla was an x-ray source.possibly designed to be powered by a Tesla coil. The tube was probably originally designed as a high energy plasma discharge tube or high frequency gas filled discharge tube (? wandering spark type i.e. the human hand in effect becoming the anticathode.) but subsequent usage mey have hardened the vacuum N.B. all gas discharge tubes emit X-rays this is because the electrons from the cathode strike any atoms of gas in the tube at high energy levels. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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