A new method for switching off a mercury arc.
Continuous current control, so familiar in the operation of high-vacuum tubes, has not been possible, except under special circumstances, for gas tubes. Even current interruption has been awkward, except for low currents, for the usual manner of interrupting the current is to decrease the anode pote...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40040 |