Geissler Tube
date: label: date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: Electro Importing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Donor card reads: "A geissler tube, purchased from the Electro Importing Company, 233 Fulton St., New York, by [me] in 1914. Made in Belgium. ... To light this tube it was connected to a spark coil. It glowed in the same manner as a neon sign. The orange colored fluid in the center gave off one color, the wavy tube another, and the two ends a third color." Unit has a sinusoidal internal element.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.324312
label: catalog number
content: 324312
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geissler Tube
label: Other Terms
content: Geissler Tube; Electron Tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 1 1/4 in x 1 in; 15.24 cm x 3.175 cm x 2.54 cm