biography
pronunciation:
[giysler]
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| lived:
| (1814–79)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Igelshieb, EC Germany. He became a glass-blower and settled in Bonn in 1854, making scientific instruments. The Geissler tube, by which the passage of electricity through rarefied gases can be seen, and the Geissler mercury pump, are among his inventions. |
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