Coolidge tube

noun

Etymology

Introduced by William Coolidge in 1913.

Definitions

  1. An improvement on the Crookes tube in which the electrons are produced by thermionic…

    An improvement on the Crookes tube in which the electrons are produced by thermionic effect from a tungsten filament heated by an electric current.

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