The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-02

ready been located successfully In innuu.
SIdDle instances in half the countries in
what we used to consider slow old Eu.
rope. Perhaps the most interesting snc-
cess thus far is that recorded in the news
from vienna, where calcareous deposits
IN various parts of the human system have
Deen marVelOusly exposed
Practically the same thing is shown i'm
the photograph of a mans hand obtained
by Campbell Swinton for one Of the news
papers here. The hand was that of a
healthy man, but shows slight nro+nber-
ances at the middle joints of two fingers
Whereupon medical men deduce the theory
govt before many years.
SWlnton is now deluged with letters from
meulcal men who wish to make use of the
new discovery. One hopes to find a fish
pone IN patients throat; another hopes
70 trace a coin a man has swallowed; and
sun another wants the photogra phers
Proot that a patients broken wrist has
been badly set. All this leads the Chron-
icle to assert that we shall soon be living
IN palace of truth
what the new invention cannot do ia
almost as wonderful as what it will do
The light, or electric current or ravs or
Whatever 1t is, passes through many
opaque substances, yet refuses to mass
through materials considered TRANSPARENT
WOOD, carbon, aluminium, ebonite, paper,
PAPER mache, human flesh and leather are
transparent to this new current, and COP
FER partially so; but nearly all metals and
Alfred Binet, the French scientist gum.
med some metal figures on a thick Sheet
Oh cardboard; then photographed it and
got Wen defined picture of the metal
hgures. He advances the astonishing the
DRY that what is possible to the new light
may be also possible to human eyes. He
thinks the eyes may acquire a new condi-
ton under not impossible circumstances
when, OF course, such feats as reading
dates of coins and numbers on bank-notes
crumpled up in the human hand may be
performed without any trick at all.
To-days papers announce that NJ. OAR
Sonval, the French electrician has made
an astounding communication to the Acad-
envy OF Sciences, of which he is a member.
he says that he has been informed by
q. Lebon that 1t is unnecessary to de-
pend on the unknown light of Crookes'
Photographing through opaque bodies
can pc done with ordinary light. A
paraffine lamp will do it. M. Lebon as
SertS that he has taken photographs in
this manner for several years
Prof. Neuser of Vienna is preparing to
photograph the internal organs of liv-
ing man. He hopes 1t will not be long be-
fore his patients are saved a great deal Of
physical pain.
The London experiments thus far are
much simpler than the foreign, the pa
pers giving scientific explanations of tho
methods of Roentgen not yet translated.
II IS stated here that a Crookes' tube Is
Some authorities assert that the new
power is electricity. Others believe that
Roentgen has discovered a new form Of
~, "Hlcl PROBABLY WORKS Win lonsl-
tudinal and not transverse vibrations.
Whether this energy merely exctes
fuorescence, which causes the formation
of an invisible image capable Of develop
ment, or whether the new energy actually
question.
Persons who have been photographed
declare that they feel for a minute
shock.
A remarkable photograph shown at
the Royal Photographic Society was
picture of a Crookes tube, itself display
ing. the concentration of it's luminosity
and other features. 1t is understood that
the picture was taken by "a pin hole
fact that all pictures taken by the new
process magnify the object more or less
1t is also a fact that the largest object
yet photographed is the human head