Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-02

He takes tube, fuses a platinum yr;r.
to each end and makes as near an e.,
proach TO a vacuum as possible ~,
then connects the tube with the electric
street mains, taking the curra,t
through an induction coil wbiob
charges battery OF twelve Leyden lars
This discharges into a higher frenner-
cy coil standing in an oil bath and
secondary coil from this is connecto5
with the tube. He uses an evtrer,oIY.
sensitive plate In a wooden slide and -
keep the light away still more secnrsI,,
he puts a sheet Of ebonite between /,
and the shutter upside. He mis- +ho
slide on a table with the film side -,
the plate uppermost. He susnends =
Crooke tube above II and then between
the two he rests the object 10 be nbo.
tographed. The current is then switch.
ed on and an exposure Of from four :,
twenty minutes is given.
FINGER NAILS WON'T PHOTO.
GRAPH.
In one experiment Swinton made fo,
the Royal Photographic Society a sen.
sitive plate was put in cardboard how
A lady put her hand on the plate. The
cover was put on the box and then
porcelain bowl was put over all tbs
things. Next the whole arrangement
was put in a thick black bag and =
Crookes tube was held three inches
above the bag. After due exposure the
hand Of the lady was seen in skeleton
outline. All the delicate bones were
perfectly articulated. each in a faint
haze that indicated the shape OF the
flesh. All the joints were as clear as I,
one saw the real ones. and the ladv's
ring hung wide and loose on the hone
Of the middle finger. The picture gave
her no nails, and now 1t appears that
finger nails will not photograph.
Clifford, Of Scmersetsh,re who has
taken the baSt pho 9qarphs yet seem m
England, Shows one with w6g.sb
patches at the ends Of the fingers. lint
Z turns out mat these ara not nails
but due to dampness Of fingers where
they touched the plate Clifford photo
graphed a lame man foot. and found
a bone enlarged and pushing the neigi-
boring toe out Of place
SENSATION OF BEING PHOTO
GRAPHED.
Persons who have been photogr,ph,5
declare that they feel for a minute
prlcklng sensation like a mild elec.r.,
shock.
Certain marks on some Of the pictures
suggested the brush form OF electricity
and Clifford declared ,lc new force ID
be an electric phenomenon lie SAYS Z
has long been kncwn tha, radiators
from an ordinary induction coil r3ng-
ly affect a sensitive pla.e even gh-l
Opaque substances are interp0ssl. Yeas
ago Philip Braham showed rna Br..sl
Association that emana 0ns from am
electro magnet caused by an unteliv
electric current act 30 Tight on plate
enclosed in an Opaque covering I.al3
since been found that carnations from
even an ordinary electro bell pen rate
Opaque wrapp.ngs Of sensitive pate and
fog" them.
A very remarkable photograph shown
at the Royal Photographic So,.ety was
Opaque wrappings Of senc i've pate and
playing the concentrated VI tts lum.n-
a picture of a Cr9Cke5 tube Itself d.s-
osity, and other fe2,ures ], IS under
s.o0d that the picture was taken by "a
pinhPle camera Of metal plate
It appears 70 be q fact that all pic
lures taken by the new process magnify
the object more or less Il is also
fact that the largest obiec, yet photo
graphed Is the human head.