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Radiometers as buttonholes: the extraordinary material legacy of William Crookes

by Jane Weiss
Radiometers as buttonholes: the extraordinary material legacy of William Crookes
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 11 years ago | 1777 views
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William Crookes was a physicist, chemist, entrepreneur and spiritualist.  Being a consummate experimenter he designed precision instruments of great delicacy, in particular exquisite glass vacuum tubes. The radiometer, when first exhibited in 1875, ....

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