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Google web search, 2026-10-08

Investigator (STEP I), project Thompson-JJ. Searches run in Chrome (own tab). Each query, and where it led:

  1. "J. J. Thomson" papers archive Cambridge University Library Add. MS 7654 -> Trinity College fonds THMJ I-III; Archives Hub gb16-thmji; National Archives Discovery record; Falconer 1987 (cites CUL Add 7654 notebooks NB35a, NB36); Centre for Scientific Archives note; ODNB entry (cites Thomson's c.1881 dissertation, CUL MS Add. 7654 UD3). See other-sites note.
  2. 1913 Thomson helium neon cathode ray bombardment Collie Patterson Strutt transmutation controversy -> Morrisson, Modern Alchemy (PDF copy); G. E. Smith, "J. J. Thomson and the Electron 1897-1899" (Princeton CS PDF, not opened); Fontani, The Lost Elements (rexresearch1 PDF, not opened).
  3. site:nature.com Thomson 1913 "helium and neon" OR "triatomic hydrogen" OR "X3" -> Nature 1913 items (see nature note).
  4. Thomson 1911 "X3" triatomic hydrogen H3+ history discovery positive rays Oka -> Kragh 2011 (Centaurus); Cologne dissertation on H3+ spectrum; Charles University thesis ("X3 ... until 1937").
  5. Kragh "A Controversial Molecule" "triatomic hydrogen" Centaurus abstract -> Wiley abstract; Kragh 2012 Phil. Trans. A; G. L. Wendt, "Triatomic hydrogen", JACS 1920 (not opened).
  6. J. J. Thomson "The Structure of Light" 1925 Fison lecture Faraday tubes ether full text -> HathiTrust full view; Navarro 2010 and 2018 (Cambridge); "One Hundred Years of the Bohr Atom" (Thomson's 1925 lecture challenged uncritical acceptance of Bohr's theory, per snippet); Sage 2020 "Whittaker, Einstein, and the History of the Aether".
  7. "Thomson problem" 1904 rings of corpuscles periodic table history Mayer floating magnets revisited -> Wikipedia (Thomson problem, plum pudding model).
  8. Strutt OR Merton OR Egerton 1914 negative "helium" "neon" discharge tubes Collie Patterson Thomson not confirmed -> Baly 1914 Annual Report (RSC, blocked); LENR Forum thread (blocked); Gutenberg Redgrove; RSC 1920 Annual Report (blocked); Lyell Collection Howarth 2024 "Chapter 9. Radioactivity" (not opened).
  9. Egerton 1915 "Proceedings of the Royal Society" helium neon hydrogen discharge "rspa.1915" -> no exact hits; Nelson's Adept Alchemy ch. 6 (Alchemy Web Site).
  10. Thomson 1922 "Proceedings of the Royal Society" A 101 290 positive rays helium neon hydrogen discharge -> Le Moyne (Giunta) excerpt of Bakerian Lecture 1913; nothing on 1922 (DOI found by Crossref instead).
  11. Wendt Irion 1922 exploding tungsten wire helium "Thomson" deflagrated metals positive rays result -> nothing direct.
  12. "Wendt" "Irion" "Experimental attempts to decompose tungsten" helium 1922 replication -> New Energy Times list; LENR reviews citing Wendt and Irion.

Leads opened from these results are written up in the site notes for the same date.