As early as about 1830 electrical discharges in gases were intriguing a number of experimental physicists in Europe. In 1881, at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson began experimenting with gaseous discharges, and continued to do so for the next 50 years.
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