in 1865. Crookes was the inventor of the Crookes radiometer but did not discern the true explanation of the phenomenon he detected. Crookes also invented...

A Crookes tube (also Crookes–Hittorf tube) is an early experimental electrical discharge tube, with partial vacuum, invented by English physicist William...

engine run by light energy. It was invented in 1873 by the chemist Sir William Crookes as the by-product of some chemical research. In the course of very...

The Mentalist Who Baffled Sir William Crookes. Skeptical Inquirer 24: 36-38. William Hodson Brock. (2008). William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization...

William Crook may refer to: William H. Crook (1839–1915), one of Abraham Lincoln's presidential bodyguards and longtime White House employee William Crook...

(1832–1907), American Civil War veteran for the Union William Crookes, English chemist and physicist William Crook (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...

To this end, they turned to Crookes, who was a prominent and respected scientist. Between 1871 and 1874, Sir William Crookes investigated the preternatural...

shoot" or "twig", was named by Crookes. It was isolated by both Lamy and Crookes in 1862; Lamy by electrolysis, and Crookes by precipitation and melting...

The William Crooks is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive that was the first locomotive to operate in the State of Minnesota, beginning in 1861. It was named after...

experiments in London at the house of William Crookes in February 1875, the medium Anna Eva Fay managed to fool Crookes into believing she had genuine psychic...