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A Mechanical Vacuum-Tube Regulator

Nature volume 91, page 478 (1913)Cite this article

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MAY I supplement Mr. Campbell Swinton's letter in NATURE of June 26? The device of sliding a glass sleeve over the kathode for the purpose of varying the hardness of a discharge tube was also used and fully described by Wehnelt in 1903 (Deutsch. Phys. Gesell. Verh., 5, 14, p. 259), some five years after Mr. Swinton.

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KAYE, G. A Mechanical Vacuum-Tube Regulator. Nature 91, 478 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091478a0

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