The Cathode Ray Tube site
     
          electronic glassware
  History and Physics Instruments  
Last update 23-11-2008
  See wonderful old demonstration tubes from
   the past like Crookes, X-Ray, and Geissler tubes. 
  Most of them, despite their age are displayed working!
Camera
 tubes
Geissler
rotators
 Links
& info
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Camera
 tubes
Geissler
rotators
 Links
& info
 CRT 
tubes
 X-Ray
 tubes
 X-Ray
 tubes
Ruhmkorff
     coils
Geissler
  tubes
Crookes
  tubes
Ruhmkorff
     coils
Welcome to this site of old electronic glassware and related Physics Instruments.
On these 28 pages you will find a lot of interesting pictures from a part of my tube collection. Together with other information and links to sites who share the same interest I will try to give you a trip through time in which a lot of discoveries took place, the time roughly between 1850 and 1950, when most of our modern techniques were invented. Let's have a look at the first famous CRT, Camera tubes and famous demonstration tubes like the Crookes Maltese Cross tube.  Also Röntgen (X-Ray), Geissler tubes and Ruhmkorff coils are part of this website.
If you want to know more details about the topics,  just follow the links on the pages to sites with in-depth information or biography from famous people like Ferdinand Braun, William Crookes or Heinrich Geissler.
Want to know more about early Cathode Ray or Camera Tubes?
Visit the pages to see all these interesting or historical tubes.
And read about their history.
Sign the Guestbook
The start of electronic TV, Radar and X-Ray technology. But also electronic CRT measurement, Aviational use and Electron microscopy.
All famous inventors of these tubes.
Find a lot of useful information and  links from early didactic tubes until the last modern CRT's.
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The first Cathode Ray tubes.
A whole timeline in TV, Radar, Aviation and oscilloscope CRT's.
See all the Geissler tubes.
Early Physics information.
CRT applications
Crookes tubes
New additions 2007
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Jan   Translation Annalen F.Braun 1897
Febr  Blue Geissler tube
Febr  Early didactic Geissler tube
Febr  Crookes heating effect tube
Febr  Lodge X-Ray valve
Febr  Lodge valve leaflet info
April  Small Crookes Maltese cross tube
June  Orange liquid filled Geissler tube
June  Small X-Ray tube
sept   A piece of Crookes radiometer history
sept   Third Crookes page
sept   Updated the Links page
Oct    Wien canal ray tube
Oct    Jackson X-ray tube
Oct    Updated contributions page
Nov    New Geissler tube
Nov    Thomson CRT
Dec    New Ruhmkorff Coil
Dec    X-Ray page update modern tube addition
Dec    X-ray page kenotron added
Dec    E10-165P CRT
Dec    CV1397 Radar CRT
Dec    Crookes butterfly tube
Dec    Update CRT page !!!

New additions in 2008

Jan    Added Sitemap page
Jan    Textual updates CRT and Camera tube pages
Febr   New third Geissler page
Febr   Three Geissler tubes added
Febr   Crookes dark space tube
Febr   Radar tube CV5282 on Radar tube page
Febr   HDTV prototype tube on the TV tubes page
Febr   Second Crookes railway tube
Febr   New Showcase page the darkroom!
Mrch  New Bibliograpy page (link on the info page)
June   Two Ruhmkorff coils added
July    Three ornamental Geissler tubes added (third page)
July    Miniature Crookes ornamental tube added (third page)
Sept   Maltese Cross tube added on the Crookes page
Sept   Two CRT's added on the Radar CRT page
Nov     CVR and CV tube technical info added on Radar CRT page
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