Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Atomic Theory and Structure: The Early Days
Explanation of the evolution of atomic theory and the experimentation associated with these concepts.
Michigan Technological University
Michigan Technological University: Sir William Crookes
A biography of English experimentalist, William Crookes, who invented the radiometer.
Other
Historical Instrum. Collection: Crookes Spinthariscope
A picture and link to a detailed story of William Crookes' Spinthariscope, the first radiation counter.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: William Crookes
English scientist William Crookes was very innovative in his investigations with vacuum tubes and designed a variety of different types to be used in his experimental work. Crookes tubes are glass vacuum chambers that contain a positive...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Crookes Tube
Simulating J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron. Participate in a simulation where two electrodes are connected to a high voltage source and see them produce cathode rays.
Other
Fusion Anomoly: William Crookes
A brief biography of Sir William Crookes, the British chemist and physicist who discovered thallium, invented the radiometer, and studied cathode rays. Includes related links.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Vacuum Tubes
The Nobel Foundation provides a brief story about the first vacuum tubes used in early electronic devices such as radios and phonographs and even the first computers.
Curated OER
Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: William Crookes (1832 1919)
A portrait of William Crookes from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
Curated OER
Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: William Crookes (1832 1919)
A portrait of William Crookes from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.