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Sir William Gibert gives name of "electricity" to the same phenomenon found in lighting in his book De Magnete.
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Evangelista Torricelli discovers natural vacuum above a column of mercury in a glass tube that is induced by gravity.
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Otto von Guericke builds "electrucal machine" to generate sparks early 1700s, Francis Haukesbee may have been first person to prodice x ray when he observes a glow discharge during experiment with a vacuum tube.
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Abbe Jean Nollet may have produced x rays while experimenting with an electrical egg.
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Alessandro Volta builds first electric battery
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Michael Faraday notes that interior of a glass tube emptied of air glows when electrivity is discharged between electrodes mounted at each end of the tube.
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Was born at Lennep in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany, as the only child of a merchant in, and manufacturer of, cloth. His mother was Charlotte Constanze Frowein of Amsterdam, a member of an old Lennep family which had settled in Amsterdam.
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To study physics
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Johann Wilhlem Hittorf
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Was appointed assistant to Kundt and went with him to Würzburg in the same year, and three years later to Strasbourg.
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Sir William Crookes invents the Crookes Tube.
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was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895 when he noticed that his tubes could make a screen glow even when there was something in the way He had discovered.
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The German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen made one of the most important medical discoveries of the modern age- radiographic imaging of the body. (From handout)
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Die in Munich, Germany.
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