LONDON Physical Society, May 8.-Prof. Gladstone, F.R.S., president, in the chair.—Mr. Crookes, F.R.S., exhibited and described some very important experiments on ...
A Crookes radiometer, despite what many explanations claim, does not work because of radiation pressure. When light strikes the vanes inside the near-vacuum chamber, it heats the vanes, which then ...
THIS morning (Dec. 20) I received from Mr. Crookes an account of the behaviour of a kind of radiometer which he was so good as to construct at my suggestion. The consideration of an experiment ...
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