Experiments on the Discharge of Electricity through Gases. Sketch of a Theory, The Bakerian Lecture in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 37, 1884, pp. 317-339) WITH The Discharge of Electricity through Gases II, The Bakerian Lecture in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 47,1890, pp. 526–561 [FIRST DEMONSTRATION THAT AN ELECTRIC CURRENT IS CONDUCTED BY IONS]
London: Royal Society. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUME FIRST EDITIONS OF THE BAKERIAN LECTURES IN WHICH THE GERMAN-BRITISH PHYSICIST SIR ARTHUR SCHUSTER “WAS THE FIRST TO SHOW THAT AN ELECTRIC CURRENT IS CONDUCTED BY IONS” (Knill). In these lectures, Schuster “also showed that the current could be maintained by a small..... More