And in 1906 into the amplifying vacuum tube, the basis of electronics and long-distance communication technologies like radio and television
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Heinrich Geißler
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the hand pumped Geissler mercury vacuum pump in the mid-1850's and in 1857, the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube; these two inventions were critical technologies leading to the discovery of the electron.
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business · German physicist and glassblower (1814–1879) · scientific glassblower · inventor · measuring instrument maker · entrepreneur · glassblower · also Heinrich Geißler, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm ('Heinrich') Geissler, Heinrich Geissler, Geißler
Born 26 May 1814 · Died 24 January 1879 · Q60807
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1897· 2 entries
Heinrich Geissler 1838, page 16, Historical Retrospect in: Charles E
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1879· 1 entry
Died 1879-01-24.
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1857· 2 entries
– Julius Plücker, Heinrich Geißler und der Beginn systematischer Gasentladungsforschung in Deutschland in: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine, Volume 14, Issue 1, pp
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The Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube; these two inventions were critical technologies leading to the discovery of the electron
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Born 1814-05-26.
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