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Increasing the Efficiency of Röntgen Ray Tubes

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MR. J. C. PORTER, in a letter in NATURE of June 18, describes a method of increasing the efficiency of a Crookes' tube. I have for some weeks used another very simple method to obtain the same result. This consists in placing the flame of a small glass spirit-lamp in the angle formed by the Crookes' tube and the wire passing to the kathode, and allowing a series of small sparks to pass to the flame from the wire.

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CRUMP, T. Increasing the Efficiency of Röntgen Ray Tubes. Nature 54, 225 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054225b0

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