Cavendish Laboratory : Discharge tubes used by JJ Thomson
Cavendish Laboratory
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Black and white photograph of an arranged group of discharge tubes used by JJ Thomson. Caption below reads: 'Apparatus used by Sir JJ Thomson in his investigations.'. Soon after his succession to Cavendish Professorship in 1884, Thomson began to experiment on the discharge of electricity through rarified gases. He continued with this work almost until his death (JJ Thomson and the Cavendish Laboratory in his Day, George Paget Thomson, 1964, p. 28).</p>