Geissler
Proper noun
Meaning
Geissler (plural Geisslers)
A surname.
Examples
Facing news industry skepticism about their background and qualifications to run an international news agency, Ruhe and Geissler watched an increase in contract cancellations.
In 1857, German physicist and glassblower Heinrich Geissler sucked even more air out with an improved pump, to a pressure of around 10 −3 atm and found that, instead of an arc, a glow filled the tube.
Thereafter, research into the partial vacuum lapsed until 1850 when August Toepler invented the Toepler Pump and Heinrich Geissler invented the mercury displacement pump in 1855, achieving a partial vacuum of about 10 Pa (0.1 Torr ).
And, frankly, it doesn’t have the money to spend in the first place— this fiscal year, state comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger estimates that Illinois has already racked up an additional $6.2 billion in debt and counting.
Geissler tubes had enough air in them that the electrons could only travel a tiny distance before colliding with an atom.
Scripps wound up giving the agency away to two inexperienced businessmen, Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler, originally associated with two better-known partners, who soon departed.