The Cathode Ray Tube site
electronic glassware
History and Physics Instruments
electronic glassware
History and Physics Instruments
Last update 20-6-2009
See wonderful old demonstration tubes from
the past like Crookes, X-Ray, and Geissler tubes.
Most of them, despite their age are displayed working!
the past like Crookes, X-Ray, and Geissler tubes.
Most of them, despite their age are displayed working!
Camera
tubes
tubes
Geissler
rotators
rotators
Links
& info
& info
CRT's
X-Ray
tubes
tubes
Geissler
tubes
tubes
Crookes
tubes
tubes
Induction
coils
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 electronic 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.
Lots of information if you want to know more in-depth information or biographies from famous people like Ferdinand Braun, William Crookes or Heinrich Geissler who stood at the base of our modern world.
Lots of information if you want to know more in-depth information or biographies from famous people like Ferdinand Braun, William Crookes or Heinrich Geissler who stood at the base of our modern world.
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.
Visit the pages to see all these interesting or historical tubes.
And read about their history.
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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.
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 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 Bibliography 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
Dec Geissler tube added
Dec Many textual updates on several pages.
Dec Books added on the bibliography page
New additions in 2009
Febr Waffle tube added on the Geissler tube page
Febr Ruhmkorff coil added
April Crookes minerals tube added on Crookes page
May Crookes discharge tube added on Crookes page
June Three CRT's added on the scope CRT page
June Rare Iconoscope gun added on the Camera tube page
June Early X-ray tube added on the X-Ray tube page 5
June New X-Ray tube page 5-2
June Several early Crookes tubes added on the Crookes page
June Nice sliding Ruhmkorff coil added on the Rhumkorff 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 Bibliography 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
Dec Geissler tube added
Dec Many textual updates on several pages.
Dec Books added on the bibliography page
New additions in 2009
Febr Waffle tube added on the Geissler tube page
Febr Ruhmkorff coil added
April Crookes minerals tube added on Crookes page
May Crookes discharge tube added on Crookes page
June Three CRT's added on the scope CRT page
June Rare Iconoscope gun added on the Camera tube page
June Early X-ray tube added on the X-Ray tube page 5
June New X-Ray tube page 5-2
June Several early Crookes tubes added on the Crookes page
June Nice sliding Ruhmkorff coil added on the Rhumkorff page
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