crookes

Not Crookes High Street, or Crookes Road - just Crookes.

In this framework I guess the propeller-thing is analogous to a Crookes radiometer.[0] I wonder what would be the Great Seal Bug[1]?

As the quote says, you only really need two components: an induction coil and a Crookes tube.

Many doctors back then would have known someone who was able to make them a Crookes tube (often themselves).

From the article you link, photophoresis looks similar to the classical explanation of a Crookes radiometer.

The Crookes tube was initially a custom piece, but workshops started turning them out as soon as the Roentgen pictures caught on.

Where I live, there is a suburb called Crookes - one of the oldest settlements in the area, called Krkor by the Vikings - which has a high street named Crookes.

I wonder if you could use this with the white paint mentioned to make crookes radiometers capable of doing useful work.

A Crookes radiometer uses sunlight to power a device.

Perhaps there's a way to visualize the actual operation of the Crookes radiometer, I've a proposal below but I'd welcome a better one.

As Abella J pointed out in Crookes v Newton 68, there is a difference between drawing a person's attention to the existence of an article and communicating its content.

Eugen Goldstein also discovered the anode rays travelling the other way in the Crookes tube and that was picked up by Wilhelm Wien and it became Mass Spectrometry for identifying elements.

Confuses the hell out of delivery drivers and people new to the area (and of course the locals become belligerent if you dare refer to it as "Crookes High Street").

Core claim: “Geissler tubes as a computer ancestor” I was really surprised at this and had to verify it “: Fair: Geissler’s 1857 gas-discharge tubes popularized controlled glow discharges and directly led to Crookes tubes, cathode rays, and gas-discharge lighting.

The chapters on recreating the early CRT experiments of people like Hertz, Crookes, and Thomson are especially nifty.

Crookes radiometer don't work in really high vacuum, which is not cheap, if do all things with boring rules.

Crookes radiometers only work in a partial vacuum.