Geissler tube

Description

Geissler tube, gas discharge tube, with the figure of a child holding a basket on a standard on a basket, all of glass, late 19th - early 20th century

Museum reference

T.1933.155

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Geissler tube

Production information

Unsigned
Europe

Date

Late 19th - early 20th century

Materials

Glass

Physical description

Glass

Associations

Inventor: Geissler, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm, 1815 - 1879

Exhibitions

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  National Museum of Scotland

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