CrossRef Google Scholar Topper has studied Thomson's commitment to mechanism in general, and to Maxwell in particular, in his thesis and two papers: Topper, D., ‘J.

J., ‘ Mechanical explanation at the end of the nineteenth century’, Centaurus, ( 1972), 17, p. (20).ĥ5 Klein examines the status of the mechanical philosophy and visualisable analogies, particularly Maxwell's use of them: Klein, M. 510 Google Scholar ‘The disruptive discharge of electricity through gases’, Philosophical Magazine, ( 1890), V, 29, p. 371 Google Scholar ‘The passage of electricity through gases’, British Association Report, ( 1889), p. 317, 495 CrossRef Google Scholar ‘Experiments on the discharge of electricity through gases’, Proceedings of the Royal Society, ( 1887), 42, p. Schuster, A., ‘ Experiments on the discharge of electricity through gases: a sketch of a theory’ (Royal Society Bakerian Lecture), Proceedings of the Royal Society, ( 1884), 37, pp. At the relatively high pressures of Thomson's experiments, cathode rays were not a significant phenomenon, but they probably were in Schuster's experiments.

Neither quotes figures for the pressures they were working at, but Schuster appears to have expended more time in evacuating his apparatus. 34 This difference between Schuster and Thomson was probably largely due to the conditions under which they performed their experiments.

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