Heinrich Geissler 1814 - 1879
- occupation:
- Glassblower, Scientific instrument maker
- Nationality:
- German
- born in:
- Thüringen, Germany
devised a mercury air pump in 1855. Best remembered for the invention of sealed glass tubes (called Geissler tubes) from which he demonstrated with Julius Plucker emission of a bluish glow by exciting the gas with an induction coil.
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