Was it a wave of some kind? A particle? The eminent Cambridge physicist J.J. Thomson solved the puzzle in 1897: The cathode-rays inside the tube were comprised of negatively charged particles ...

In his experiments, the cathode rays bent over to one side, so Thomson knew the cathode rays must be made of some small particle, which he dubbed a "corpuscle." Thomson initially thought his ...

Professor Trowbridge's experiments with the cathode rays at the Jefferson Physical ... such as one obtains by the use of the Thomson or Tesla coil and by the use of only one terminal.

A DIFFRACTION pattern was obtained by passing a cathode ray beam through a thin sheet of mica, with an apparatus similar to that used by G. P. Thomson in his interesting experiment on the ...

PARIS -- Thomson SA, the French supplier of video equipment, said Tuesday it has reached an agreement to sell its cathode-ray tube activities in China, Mexico and Poland to Videocon group of India.

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The experiments of the lecturer ... incandescent matter and from radium. Prof. Thomson expressed mathematically the laws of Becquerel and cathode rays and then showed from his equations that ...

By a transformation of the Ruhmkoff coils in series and connecting the coils with the tube and then exhausting the air, you get the cathode rays. At this point the experiment was performed.