geissler tube Meaning, Definition & Usage

Geis"sler tube`
Definitions
  1. (Elec.) A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plücker tube, from the German physicist who devised it.

Webster 1913