X-Ray and Gas Discharge Tubes

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Geissler Tubes Crookes Radiometers Maltese Cross Tube Crookes Railway Tube

Heating Effects Tube Crookes Tube With Three Anodes
Crookes Tube Aetna Electric Co. X-ray Tube Cancer Treatment X-ray Tube

Queen X-ray Tube

Villard Tube Gundelach Tube Pressler Tubes

Cold Cathode Tube

Kesselring Tube Snook Tube Water-cooled X-ray Tube Victor Tube

Bellevue Interrupterless Transformer Tube

Air-Cooled Machlett Tube

Early Kesselring Tube

Kesselring Tube with Unusual Anode

Tube with Bauer Regulator

Piffard Safety Tube

Kny-Scheerer Tube

Victor Tube 

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Last updated: 02/15/08
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