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Eissler Tube
Webster's Dictionary
A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; - so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Eissler Tube'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/eissler-tube.html. 1828.