On the passage of electricity through gases.

220 x 147 mm. Thick 8vo. Pages (57)-61. [Entire volume: x, 425 pp.] Quarter navy morocco, morocco corners, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt spine; rubbed. Blind stamp of the Carnegie Institution, Washington. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "Schuster spent the greater part of the years 1876 to 1881 at the newly established Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge, working first with James Clerk Maxwell and later collaborating with J. W. Strutt, third Lord Rayleigh, in a determination of the ohm in absolute measure, an investigation on the results of which the Board of Trade fixed the value of the legal ohm. . . [Schuster's] scientific work lay mainly in the field of spectroscopy, electricity in gases, terrestrial magnetism, optics, and the mathematical theory of periodicity. . . While investigating the passage of electricity through gases he was the first to show that an electric current passes through a gas by means of gaseous ions and concluded that cathode rays are gaseous ions accelerated in the strong field near the cathode. He was also the first to show that the ratio e/m can be obtained by deflecting cathode rays in a magnetic field." DNB, 1931-1940, pp. 791-793. See also: DSB, 237-239. First Edition.

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Publisher: University Press, 1880.

Year: 1880

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