Discovery of the Electron

a primitive television picture tube:
- electrons boiled off of a hot filament

attracted to a plate at +2500 volts

           ...some electrons pass through a hole in the plate, coast to a fluorescent screen,
making a bright spot
where they hit


 

 

 

 

 

using this apparatus, Thompson discovers electrons
magnetic field bends "electron" beam at right angles
...North one way, South the other ........
DEMO
...right hand rule, inherently 3-D