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Crookes tube   Listen
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Crookes tube  n.  (Phys.) A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.






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"Crookes tube" Quotes from Famous Books



... of investigating the body by means of the X rays is very simple, as is shown in Figure 1. The Crookes tube, actuated from a storage battery or other source of electricity through a Ruhmkorff coil, is placed on one side of the body. If need be, instead of using the entire tube, the rays from the most effective portion of it only are allowed to impinge upon the part of the ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various

... that thoughts are as real as matter, energy, time, or space? Have I not just demonstrated that one can be transformed, through the cosmon, into any other? My idealizator is the means of transforming psychons to quanta, just as, for instance, a Crookes tube or X-ray tube transforms matter to electrons. I will make your thoughts visible! And not your thoughts as they are in that numb brain of yours, but in ideal form. Do you see? The psychons of ...
— The Ideal • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

... weapons to fight it; a large and specially fitted Crookes tube operated by powerful storage batteries and provided with peculiar screens and reflectors, in case it proved intangible and opposable only by vigorously destructive ether radiations, and a pair of military flame-throwers ...
— The Shunned House • Howard Phillips Lovecraft



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