Roentgen rays

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The X- or Roentgen rays have been mentioned several times.

From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by Widtsoe, John Andreas

Clearly this was the manifestation of a property heretofore unknown in any natural substance, and was strikingly similar to the action of the Roentgen rays.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

Further investigations by Lord Kelvin, Beattie, Smolan, and Rutherford confirmed the fact that, like the Roentgen rays, the uranium rays not only acted upon the photographic plate but discharged electrified bodies.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

First of all it was subjected to the Roentgen rays, the result being to show that the interior was not homogeneous.

From William of Germany by Shaw, Stanley

Luckily, not even Roentgen rays could discover what a store of drawings, charts, and fortress plans I keep in my memory.

From The Coming Conquest of England by Niemann, August