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Foil Leyden Jar Helps Bring Crookes Tube To Life

Summary by Hackaday
It might be too soon to consider the innards of the old CRT monitor at the back of your closet to be something worth putting on display in your home or workshop. For that curio cabinet-worthy appeal, you need to look a bit further back. Say, about 150 years. Yes, that’ll do. A Crookes tube, the original electron beam-forming vacuum tube of glass, invented by Sir William Crookes et al. in the late 19th century, is what you need. And a Crookes tub…
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Hackaday broke the news in on Friday, May 23, 2025.
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