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After the Geissler tube, in 1867, the cathode tube was invented by the physicist,
Karl Ferdinand Braun. As did the Geissler tube, the cathode ray tube has
a cathode and anode,, but in addition it had a heater to warm a cathode ( which
causes more electrons to boil off the metal of the cathode than an unheated cathode)
and also a fluorescent screen at the end of the end of the tube with the anode.
As in Geissler’s tube, the anode has a positive voltage relative to the cathode,
attracting the electrons pulled along by the electric field. Then the electrons
strike the fluorescent screen. There an electron hits an atom in the fluorescent
screen, which in turn ejects a photon (light) from screen. Two magnetic coils
around the cathode tube focus the beam of electrons into a small spot on the
fluorescent screen and deflect the spot in the direction of a voltage applied to
the deflecting coils. In this way, a spot on the screen can be seen to follow the
deflecting voltage applied to the deflecting coil. In this from a cathode tube is
called an oscilloscope, an instrument very important both to scientific studies
and to electrical engineering. (Later the cathode ray tube would become the
technological basis for television tube displays, when television was invented
in the 1930s.)
Karl F. Braun (1850-1918) was born in Fulda, Germany. In 1872 he obtained a
Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. In 1874, he discovered that a semiconductor
Crystal could change alternating electric current into direct electrical current
(an invention not to be useful for another fifty years).In 1895’ he became a professor
of physics at the University of Strasbourg, andin 1897, he invented the oscilloscope.
Braun also worked on wireless telegraphy, inventing a crystal diode detector for
radio signals (around which the first radio receivers were later developed). In 1909,
Braun shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Guglielo Marconi for the
development of wireless telegraphy.
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