Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-11

| read these pages over again and again
until he has fully grasped their meaning.
| This art of the work closes with a
chapter Of Photographic notes on devel-
op.ng, etc.
A chapter on the surgical value Of the
X Rays, their usefulness in discovering
foreign bodies imbedded in the flesh or
bones of a person, its application to den
| ustry, ETC., and finally the consideration
ofthelr curative properties, brings this
interesting. instructive and valuable
work to a close. An appendix, or rather
! three of them, giving the original paper
on the X Ray by Prof Rontgen; Mr.. Ed
sons views on this wonderfully inter
rsting subject, and an exhaustive article
on the X Ray by Dr.. Oliver Lodge closes
the volume
The work Is a 12mo, printed in large,
clear type on calendered paper, and, IN
addition tO/the large number of illustra-
tons forming part of the text, has a
piece in colors, clearly d.fferentiating
The X Rays from the anode and cathode
rays, While thirty-two pages Of excellent
X Ray pictures are reproduced by half
tone plates from Y Ray negatives taken
by DR.. Morton and pronounced by scien-
lists 10 be the most valuable collection
in the country.
The price, as well as the work, is ex-
iraordinary, being fifty cents in paper
covers, and seventy-five cents in cloth
binding. 1t can be had a. any book
store. or will be sent postpaid, on receipt
of price by the publishers, American
Technical Book Company, 40 Vesey ST.,
New York. Wa predict splendid sale
for this excellent book.
OF SPECIAN INTEREST TO EXPER-
MEN ERS WITH X RAYS.
*Many people call this the Electrical
age" Il is II might also be called ,he
ho.og.lphic age" The number OF
people who own Photographic cameras
! is enormous: the number who eXpec, 70
some day own such apparatus is still
greater. II is a difficult matter to meet
a person who has not done more or less
with photography and who has not qui'
decided views as to which is the best
camera and which the best developer.
In fact. the widespread knowledge Of
photography is, in a large degree, res
p0nsible for the universal interes, ana
| curiosity concerning the X Ray. The
| phCtographer has become 50 accustomed
to consider light" 10 be an absolute re-
0u.reTent in his work that he is IN
pressed at once by he unnatural process
of taking pictures in the dark and OF that
which he cannot see. He was a frs, so
convinced that ii was impossible TO see
through a pine board or mans BODY
hat he was inclined TO believe The who-e
" Raw excitement TO be the proluct CT
, The in9ginatcn. Like al who doubt, he
must see to believe. But when once he
has seen. he is naturally inclined to as
cribe to Inc new agency powers which Il
does no. possess. It will be our effort 10
point out the limitations as well as the
astonishing capabilities Of the new dis
coye-y.
Another Photographic lido. will be
shattered when il is found that IN me
"photGa,gphy CT thc Invisible no cam
era is needed. How this s.mp"ties mat
;ers! Only a sensitive plale, Wn.ch c2h
bo b0ren o, any dealer. ana a suitable
holder for the same are required. l. You
nave no camera and no dark !Jom, NJ
yelcpiag utensils and no EnoWle- &c as
10 the development Of negatives. You
may still, lake \ Ray pictures. II You
| have a camera and a. the necessaries OF
dark room eQu.pmen. YOU may us e,h m.
but q camera cannot be used except 70
photograph the shadow image cast By
! The \ Raw upon fu0rescent screen.
Al Y Ray pictures, whether taken
with or without a camera or only seen