Coolidge tube

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Etymology[edit]

Introduced by William Coolidge in 1913.

Noun[edit]

Coolidge tube (plural Coolidge tubes)

  1. An improvement on the Crookes tube in which the electrons are produced by thermionic effect from a tungsten filament heated by an electric current.

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