Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-21

I'm dark room has a vibration of $50 mil
lion millions per second. That is one end.
Al the other we had the huorescence Of
the ultra violet at 80 million millions a
second. with the yellow at $50 and the
blue still higher yet.
Then there is the vibration OF sound
applied TO the hearing and the short cut
90 the brain by way of the teeth, where
the diaphragm of the ear has been shat
tered. The possibilities are Hmitess.
"Iu the experiments Of last Monday night
I tried the regular N-ray. and afterward,
I'm conjunction with it. the N-ray with a
dull red bulb What effect, if any. one
may have had on the other, / cannot say
now. When I get the right vibration of
light TO suit the proper agitation of the
optic nerve / shall try a novel expert
ment.
WHAT HE INTENDS TO DO.
eel shall take a metal that offers great
obstruction to the N-ray and make a
stencil of it, BY this I mean 1 shall cut
letters I'm the metal l shall place back OF
this % Roentgen bulb having the proper
vibration of light. and by looking in the
direction of the stencil 1 believe the blind
man will be able TO read the letters. If
his optic nerve is in q healthy state l do
not see why ne should not be able to do
so.
What more T can promise does not
appear vet but with that much i'm sight
at least i'm theory-there may be more hid
den from us. I want a half day with an
Intelligent blind man. one with cataracts
preferred. and I mean to have one in my
fabratory as soon as I can make the ar
raugements.
.I believe I'm the discovery of that San
Francisco chap the Journal quoted this
morning. 1 believe the blind man who
could see at an by aid of the Roentgen ray
could see through a board or stone
wall"
The Wizard led the way into his dark
room and worked the Horoscope in way
that was wonderful TO see. He put
quarter i'm book of 1900 pages and tested
/ the sensitiveness of the eye after five ten
/ and thirty minutes showing how greatly
| time aided the sensitiveuess of the optic
nerve
The bones of the hand stood out I'm a
| way that would have enabled one to read
/ sible TO get it there. Then he spoke of the
recent discovery of Basquerel a French
chemist. that the salts of uranium in
t dark room throw off a new and unaccount-
able ray Of light and said he hoped 10
make some experiments i'm this line lit
tle later on.
Mr.. Edison is careful not to promise too
much from his discovery, and does not
want people to- expect ne is going to fit
out every blind man I'm the world with
pocket instrument little more cumber-
S. me than a pair of spectacles, with which
he will be enabled to read the Psalms in
diamond type But ne has the hope that
he may Doe the instrument of doing some
thing worth while. and this hope he is
willing to share with the public.
WHAT AN EDITOR THINKS.
r. Commeford Martin. associate editor
of the Electrical Engineer, is a firm be-
lever i'm Mr.. Edison. and when the latter
saws he will make the blind see by aid
of the Roentgen rays. Mr.. Martin is in
clined to- think he will do so. He sees
Great difficulties that will have to be over
come. however. and the greatest OF these
is the deIeterious effect on the human body
that mas almost luNdl ldbAy ApiiO"NN '''N
use Of the rays.
"I believe Mr.. Edison will be able to
mako the blind see" said Mr.. Martin. for.
while he is a great optimist. he never goes
shooting at the moon. Before he succeeds
I'm this last and greatest undertaking,
however he will have TO in some manner
neutralize the deleterious effect of the rays
ON the human body. In almost every in
stance where people have been subjected
to- the rays n bad effect has followed. and
the last person TO give testimony TO that
effect is Professor ElihU Thomson.
TO prove the truth or falsity of the
statement that the rays We're hurtful
Professor Thomson exposed the left little
finger of his hand 10 them for half an
hour He did not feel any immediate ef-
feet good or bad but q week later the
finger was swollen. stiff and began to
blister
Now, if this is so with an ordinary Y
ray. what would be the effect of one of in
creased power on the human eye? 1t
seems TO me that it would be bad-that,
i'm fact, in the course of time, any eye
exposed TO the rays would disintregate.
How to prevent this I think. is the prob
lem Mr.. Edison will have TO solve. He
viii do IL. but it viii take time, When it
is finished. however, it VIII be the great
est achievement of his life