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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Geis·sler tube 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.
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