cathode rays

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When the electrode was heated, it would shoot cathode rays across the chamber toward the sphere.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

He verified the negative charge of the cathode rays with both magnetic and electric fields.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Lenard discovered how to enable cathode rays to escape from the vacuum chamber in which they were created, so that they could be examined more closely.

From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2015

Philipp Lenard, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on cathode rays, wrote a four-­volume treatise on the one true science and called it “German Physics.”

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012

It was for this reason that the name of "cathode rays" has been given to the new radiant force; but Dr. Röntgen himself called the phenomena the X, or unknown, rays.

From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by Ridpath, John Clark