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Cathode rays

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Cathode rays

The name given to the electrons originating at the cathodes of gaseous discharge devices. The term has now been extended to include low-pressure devices such as cathode-ray tubes. Furthermore, cathode rays are now used to designate electron beams originating from thermionic cathodes, whereas the term was formerly applied only to cold-cathode devices.
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95 Hardcover Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945 Q143 Crooks is known for discovering thallium, inventing the radiometer, experimenting with cathode rays using the Crookes tube, predicting that mankind would starve unless science removed the excess nitrogen from the atmosphere, and being interested in spiritualism.
William Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science by SciTech Book News
As I have been saying for the past 48,000 years, cooking is an art form, not some wacky branch of Light Entertainment, and one classic performer like Delia is worth a million self-obsessed TV chefs, egregiously shallow-frying themselves in the cathode rays.
Victor Lewis-Smith column: St DELIA'S GOT THEM LICKED by Lewis-Smith, Victor / The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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