The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-19
HIS BRAND NEW RAY
It's Produced Without Coil, Tube or
Applied Electricity.
TRAPHAGEN'S EXPERIMENTS
The Professor is Going Right Along
Towards the Accomplishment
of Something Creat-Agri-
cultural College Notes.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
Bozeman. March 17.-Prof +. w.
Traphagen of the College OF Agricul-
ture and Mechanic Arts. has been MAX
ing experiments in photography and
especially with Roentgen rays. The
Scientific American having given room
In its columns to a number OF letters
from the doctor without being able to
explain the reasons clearly he seems to
have produced the Roentgen rays with
out the use OF an induction coil, a
Crooke's tube or electricity in any APP
piled form. He discovered that by lay
ing different objects upon an unex-
posed plate and leaving Ii in dark
room for from 40 minutes to one hour,
the plate would give clear pic
ture OF the article which had rested
upon IL. The effect upon the mega tive
the doctor found to be similar to the
Roentgen effect, not a reduction i'm I'M
der the metal or article placed upon the
negative, but the reverse, the reduction
taking place around the objects. the
him under the objects remaining un-
changed and washing out in the hypo,
giving the shadows" IL is necessary to
have metals upon the plate and the
best results are obtained when the
metals are different, TO the extent of
possessing positive and negative quail
ties. However. two metal objects. IL
alike, viii produce the effect. apparent
ly electrical and seemingly of the
Roentgen rays. which gives a very good
photograph of articles applied I'm this
manner. The doctor found that sill
yer dollar laid on the plate gave no ef-
feet Two quarters showed the quarter
and gave a faint outline OF the eagle.
brass key and a half dollar, two diff
70 ont oil oh. a.
eagle clearly defined. Coins with glass
and miscellaneous object. laid on the
plate. showed impressions of all the ar
ticles quite clearly.
Then the doctor tried the effect Of
placing articles between the metals and
the plate. This. when oiled tissue pa
per was used. showed both the dollar
end a faint outline of the tissue paper
and from the dollar were rising sun
rays radiatinG i'm every direction. Fur
Their insulation proved too much, as
both writing and blotting paper, when
between the metal and the plate, gave
no effect on the plate.
The college students were given
charge some time ago of the college
paper. the College Exponent, and they
elected editors from among their own
number and went to work. This week
they issued their first paper. IL was
different i'm size from what the Expo
nent had previously been. contains
more matter and is perhaps the best
number of the paper yet published.
Each one OF the editorial staff has con-
tributed something to the paper and
although the first newspaper work they
have done. the articles are well written
and will be interesting reading for any
one who may receive copy Of the pub
licatio
The request from the local college
board for the designations of all of the
professors of the faculty of the College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
which was followed by the acceptance
by the board of three OF these resigna-
tions, is still the talk Of the city here.
The complete mystery which surrounds
this action of the board still remains
unbroken, they positively refusing. Il is
understood, to give any reason to the
professors or to their friends for this
move upon their part. The local board
here cannot be made to explain their
motives. unless an explanation is de-
manded of them by the state board,
but the general feeling here is to the
effect that the state board will make
this request. 1t is rumored that the
local board has not yet acted upon the
designations of portion of the faculty.
and that there are further develop
ment which will be made public in a
few DAVIS