Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler (26 May 1814 in Igelshieb – 24 January 1879) was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the hand...
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: 67 This device was developed in 1857 by Heinrich Geissler, a German physicist and glassblower. A Geissler tube is composed of a sealed glass cylinder...
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Geißler (1930–2017), German politician (CDU) Ines Geißler (born 1963), German swimmer Heinrich Geißler (1814–1879), German physicist Martin Geissler (born...
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anode (positive electrode). In 1857, German physicist and glassblower Heinrich Geissler sucked even more air out with an improved pump, to a pressure of around...
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invents the modern kerosene lamp. 1856 glassblower Heinrich Geissler confines the electric arc in a Geissler tube. 1867 Edmond Becquerel demonstrates the first...
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Crookes tubes evolved from the earlier Geissler tubes invented by the German physicist and glassblower Heinrich Geissler in 1857, experimental tubes which...
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Geissler is a small lunar impact crater that lies on the northern floor of the much larger walled plain Gilbert, near the eastern limb of the Moon. Just...
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1889) May 26 Wilhelm Engerth, Austrian architect, engineer (d. 1884) Heinrich Geißler, German physicist (d. 1879) May 30 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist...
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Perkin invents mauveine, the first synthetic dye. 1857: Heinrich Geissler invents the Geissler tube. 1857: The phonautograph, the earliest known device...
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father of the low-pressure gas discharge tube was German glassblower Heinrich Geissler, who beginning in 1857 constructed colorful artistic cold cathode...
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Faltings Mathematician Emil Fischer Organic Chemist Heinrich Geißler Physicist and Inventor of the Geissler tube Reinhard Genzel Astrophysicist Felix Hausdorff...
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Spanish general, regent and Prime Minister (b. 1793) January 24 – Heinrich Geißler, German physicist (b. 1814) January 26 – John Cadwalader, American...
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experimental investigation of the Magnus effect by Heinrich Gustav Magnus 1857: Geissler tube by Heinrich Geißler 1857: Helmholtz resonance by Hermann von Helmholtz...
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German glassblower Heinrich Geissler created a mercury vacuum pump that evacuated a glass tube to an extent not previously possible. Geissler invented the first...
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and only slightly changed until well into the nineteenth century. Heinrich Geissler invented the mercury displacement pump in 1855 and achieved a record...
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1858, after a year of working with vacuum tubes of his Bonn colleague Heinrich Geißler, he published his first classical researches on the action of the magnet...
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this, in the 1850s, Heinrich Geissler was able to achieve a pressure of around 10−3 atmospheres, inventing what became known as Geissler tubes. Using these...
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electromagnetism, thereby showing that light is an electromagnetic wave. Heinrich Geißler designs a mercury pump capable of producing a significant vacuum. August...
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1850 when August Toepler invented the Toepler pump and in 1855 when Heinrich Geissler invented the mercury displacement pump, achieving a partial vacuum...
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Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 1777 – 21 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best...
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started experimenting with producing light from glow discharges, which Heinrich Geissler had first developed in the 1850s. "What's wrong with my light?" Thomas...
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1815. 12 May – Adolf von Henselt, German composer (d. 1889) 26 May- Heinrich Geißler, German physicist (d. 1879) 10 August – Henri Nestlé, German-born Swiss...
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physicist and winner of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics. January 24 – Heinrich Geißler (born 1814), German scientific instrument maker. March 3 – William...
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Dally (killed by X-ray exposure in the course of his work) Heinrich Geißler (invented the Geissler tube) Jorg Meyer Mitsugi Ohno Joseph Patrick Slattery (radiography...
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mathematician Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, historian and politician Heinrich Geißler, glassblower and physicist William Keogh, Irish judge Franz Peter Knoodt...
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Geiger–Müller tube. Further improved by Walther Müller. Heinrich Geißler: Inventor of the Geissler tube. Reinhard Genzel: Astrophysicist, he and his group...
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May 26 Wilhelm Engerth, Austrian architect and engineer (died 1884). Heinrich Geißler, German scientific instrument maker (died 1879). July 19 – Samuel Colt...
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Marconi Cabinet V: geomagnetics and Geissler Gas discharge tube with holder by Ducretet and Lejeune 1862 Heinrich Geißler Universal geomagnetic instrument...
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commander, Leutnant Franz Bohnsack, pilot of the He 111, Feldwebel Heinrich Geissler, navigator, Unteroffizier Wolfgang Wichmann, wireless operator, Leutnant...
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Geiger (1882–1945) WGPSN Geissler 2°36′S 76°31′E / 2.6°S 76.51°E / -2.6; 76.51 (Geissler) 17.39 1976 Heinrich Geissler (1814–1879) WGPSN Geminus...
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