The Cathode Ray Tube site
150 years of CRT evolution
The Dutch collection
Helmholtz coils to investigate the deflection of electron beams in electrical
and magnetic fields, particularly the determination of the specific
electron charge e/m, the Electron Charge to Mass Ratio.
This tube has been used in classroom demonstrations.
The manufacturer of this tube, the German NEVA factory closed in 1969.
An interesting article about this tube can be found at the Middlebury College.
Philips DG7-32 exploded view box for educational use.
Braun tube after Thomson, second quarter 20th Century. Length 65cm.
This from origin cold cathode Braun tube is equipped with two deflection plates to bent the beam electrostatically instead of magnetically as with the Braun tube.
This tube became forerunner of the static CRT used in measuring equipment like the oscilloscope. The neck contains an aluminum diaphragm to form the beam.
The phosphor mica screen.
The first lines appear on the screens in this type of early tube in order to measure the amount of voltage supplied
to the deflection plates in respect of the
deviation of the beam. In later tubes the glass front is internally covered with phosphor like in modern CRT's.
Braun tube sold by P J Kipp & Zonen (1920)
The crude phosphor screen seen from the inside.
company in chemical and Physics instruments in 1830. After
his death in 1864 two of his sons, Antonius Johannes Kipp,
mechanic, and Wilhelmus Arnoldus Kipp, apothecary took
over the company under a new name: J P Kipp & Zonen,
producing and trading medical, chemical and Physics
instruments. The company was sold to Otto Arnold Ankersmit
in 1917 who registered NV P.J. Kipp & Zonen. The company still exists in Holland
Wehnelt CRT after Thomson ca 1930
This nice tube is the first demonstration CRT with a direct heated filament cathode and a Wehnelt cylinder for focussing the electron beam. This tube, probably imported from E Leybolds Nachfolger and sold by W Edwards & co London. Special is the fact that this tube has four static deflection plates .
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CRT after Braun - Wehnelt ca1940
The deflection plates in this tube are with mica isolated in a separate glass chamber for a more stable beam.
length 60cm
A BR2 Braun tube ca1950
These tubes were made by NARVA VEB after the war in the DDR.
Cathode Ray Tubes
Didactical CRT's