[1859 GASSIOT PAPER: CATHODE RAYS, PARTICLES, STRATIFICATION, & THE ROOTS OF EARLY TELEVISION]: On the Stratifications in Electrical Discharges as Observed in Torricellian and other Vacua -- SECOND Communication [extracted from] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 149, Received Dec.9, 1858. Read Jan 13, 1859, [1859 publication], pp. 137-160
London: Taylor and Francis, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (1859 extract) of GASSIOT’S FINAL PAPER REPORTING HIS CONCLUSIONS ON IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH HE OBSERVED DEFLECTIONS OF CATHODE RAYS BY ELECTROSTATIC CHARGES & MAGNETISM. “Gassiot's work was particularly important in the demise of the contact theory of voltaic electricity” (Wikipedia)..... More