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Roentgen rays



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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

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

A few years ago when many distinguished scientists celebrated in Berlin the discovery of the Roentgen rays, Mr. Roentgen himself was not present.

From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton)

Beyond eight hundred vibrations there is plenty of light, invisible to our eyes, known as chemical rays and probably the Roentgen rays.

From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White

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




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