he was the worst practical physist ever...managed to break not one but three of those vacuum flasks with the anode and cathode in so can show a circle of luminous electrons (can't remember the experiment name now, or why we did it).
he did it by mis-reading the voltage levels and putting the decimal point in the wrong place.... there was a nice arc and not much afterwards.....
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he did it by mis-reading the voltage levels and putting the decimal point in the wrong place.... there was a nice arc and not much afterwards.....