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Salomons writes: 'This paper is a contribution upon the phenomenon known as striae, or bands, in vacuum tubes. As far as I can learn from the sources of information available to me, no one has yet discovered how to produce a predetermined number of bright and dark bands in a tube having an open or free path.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes 22 pages of diagrams of experimental observations.

Subject: Physics

Received 30 April 1894 / 24 July 1894. Read 21 June 1894. Communicated by David Edward Hughes.

A version of this paper was published in volume 56 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On some phenomena in vacuum-tubes'.

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PP/24/18
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1894
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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56 pages
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David Salomons

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David Salomons, Paper, 'On some phenomena in vacuum-tubes' by David Salomons, 1894, PP/24/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_24_18/paper-on-some-phenomena-in-vacuum-tubes-by-david-salomons, accessed on 10 November 2024

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