Cathode rays
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A heated filament in a vaccuum created by a glass container. The small particles that make the tube are rattled by the heat into letting go of their electrons. These loose electrons do something in that vaccuum that makes them give a floursecent light as they reach the walls of their glasshouse. What do they do?
"There is no other branch of physics which affords us so promising an oppurtunity of penetrating the secret of electricity" J.J. Thomson, 1893
