White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1896-02-06
WONDERFUL DI.,COyERY,

The most wonderful discovery OF our
time of wonders, is reported to have
been made by Prof Roentgen of the
| Wuizburg Bavaria University. A dis
patch from Vienna OF Jan. 10th, publish.
cd in the San Francisco Examiner des-
crlbes it as follows:
ut is process by which the interior
OF living human body may be photo
graphed. The light by means of which
this remarkable feat cun be achieved
will also penetrate all organic substan.
ces: that is wood, leather and articles OF
the same class.
The light which renders this possible
issderived from radiant heat, and is of
wonderful penetrative power. 1t is
thrown upon the object by means Of Que
of Cooks tubes This is a vacuum or air.
tight glass tube through which an i'll.
duclion (electrlcaD current passes, and
the rays from the intense heat caused
by the current which is known as radi.
ant heat are thrown from the tube upon
the object it is desired to photograph.
Professor Roentgen has succeeded in
securing several remarkable negatives.
One instance Is that Of mans ankle
wherein bullet was imbedded. The
photograph shows the bullet just as it
lodged IN the ankle, thus revealing what
heretofore could only be learned by
probing and the use of the surgeon s
knife.
In another case, a purse, containing a
quantity OF money, Was selected us a
subject. The heat ray focused thereon
produced negative showing with wond.
erful clearness both purse and contents.
A human hand was then subjected to
the heat rays. In the picture resulting
appears skeleton hand, the covering of
flesh seeming to have vanished as if by
magic. 1t must be remembered. too,
tHut tulS Who uol tlo uduu VI ucHi
person, but belonged to living, breath
ing man, the remainder of the arm being
SO screened and arranged as to be ex-
cluded from the focus OF the tube cam
era.
Perhaps tho most notable experiment,
however, which illustrated with graphic
clearness the eccentric pow er OF the new
discovery, was the photograph of a
young man seated beside young lady
before the photographer IN ordinary
dress, but whom the negative shows a
perfect skeleton. To test the clearness
with which the new process wunld re
produce the skeleton of living subject
negatives were also taken by the ordi-
nary method. In the first case the
, spinal vertebrae were reproduced in
every detail, forming ghastly specimen
I OF realism.
! Again, an ordinary iron weight was
, placed inside wooden box one and one
' half 10y three feet. In the picture the
! weight alone Is seen, the box having ap-
1 purently vanished in air This latter
was considered crucial teet, and de-
monstrated beyond the possibility OF @
doubt that only few OF the wonders
the new process will accomplish have
been learned.
Tie Crooke tube used IL arranged like
the lens in an ordinary camera, the in
duction coil-that il, the wire over
= which the electricity passes into th,
q tube-ruuning from small storage bat
terry arranged in the camera, and at til,
= rear OF the tube. Then over the ends
u OF tue tube from which the heat ray
IRE focused heavy cloth is thrown II
L such manner as to clearly outline th,
tubes end. enabling the operator L
focus the rays without difficulty. Thu
i it will be seen that the photograph i
y taken through this heavy cloth, as wei
as the substance surrounding the objec
it IL desired to reproduce.
Strictly speaking radiant heat rays ar
!: by no means new light. but Protesso
II Roentgen has by experiment gained th
q ability to secure special rays with whicl
- scientists are not familiar.
10 Professor Roentgon has also overturn
|. oil tho scientific theory regardinI
% opaque objects; that Ia, objects which il !
e held light will not penetrate. lie bold
l. and claims that bis newly discovere
81 prOcess. will clearly show, even NOR
n than now. that there is no such thin
Il as an opaque object. The penetratin
Ie power Of light, he claims. lie regulated l'
Ie it's intensity aud method Of use. 1h
10 Prof. further says that he Is convince
irum facts that the discovery has brougl
Q. TO his knowledge concerning heat, thH
~ the greater uses Of heat aud elecirici'
NJ ARE not yet known; thnt they are cupabl
n. OF vast development. He is nov carr,