The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-21
STORM THE HALL.
Yale students Climb Through the Win
dows to Hear Lecture.


Yale students Climb Through the Win
dows to Hear Lecture.
New Haven Correspondence New York
Herald.
The great interest in the recent dis
coveries of the use of cathode rays in
photography burst forth at Yale uni
versity this evening in q most unique
way. Arthur w. Wright professor of
| experimental properties, who is in
charge of Sloan Laboratory, and who
was the first American to confirm the
experiments of Roentgen, delivered a
lecture in Sloan laboratory on Cathode
Rays"
The lecture was not generally an
nounced. The members of the faculty
who constitute the Mathematical club
were DESTROYS that all the faculty and
their friends should have a chance to
get seats, but long before the hour set
for the lecture, students and towns
people began to gather in crowds.
There were three other lectures in the
university this evening, but this fact
did not affect the attendance, and the
big lecture room was filled in a few
minutes after the doors were thrown
open.
Professor Andrew Phillips, seeing
that the faculty and their friends
as doorkeeper. but students and gray
haired professors almost trampled on
him in their eagerness. The heads of
every department of the university
were represented in the eager throng.
Dean Wayland of the law school, Di-
rector Brush of the scientific school;
Professor Fisher of the divinity school;
Medical Examiner White of the medical
school: Judge Simeon Baldwin, DR.. Ray
w. Palmer of the corporation, and doZ-
ems of other notables pushed through
the serging students and secured camp
chairs near the professors desk.
When Professor Wright came into
the lecture room he was greeted with
a round of applause. This set the stu
dents, who were still struggling at the
door wild, and in an instant they seal
ed high walls of the laboratory, pushed
up the windows and came piling in
like invaders. For half an hour this
storming of the lecture room continued
and interrupted the lecture, so that
much of what Professor Wright had to
say could not be heard except by those
who We're fortunate enough to be near
his desk.
Professor Wright's lecture was a
most interesting one, and notable as
well on account of his description of
the experiments he had made with ca
thode rays as for the conclusions which
he had drawn from them, some of
which are decidedly new. He began
by saying that cathode photography
was one more startling verfication of
the saying that there is nothing new
under the sun
THE recent discoveries of the cathode
rays" he said, form undoubtedly one
of the most interesting advances in
modern science, and yet this discovery
is not altogether new. Nature has for
centuries been doing this same work,
making these mysterious photographs.
1t has sent the lightning through the
human body and left imprinted on the
flesh the image of intervening objects
Franklin mentions the discovery of the
image of tree on the body of a man
killed by lightning. Sea captains long
ago told tales that no one believed of
the portions of the pictures of the me-
tallic portions of ships on the bodies
of sailors killed by lightning. The dis
covery of cathode photography has at
last told us how to make these mys-
FERROUS shadow pictures"
Professor Wright then by series of
interesting and delicate physical ex-
periments traced the history of the dis
covery of the cathode rays by physi-
cists and the development of electrical
discharges in vacuum tubes. which
were perfected by Crooke, of England !
He finally took up the discoveries OF
Lenard of the University Of Bonn. in
Germany.
ITO this young. painstalxing and
modest scholar belongs the credit" he I
said "of the most important step in !
this really great discovery. Roentgen
has discovered practically nothing that !
Lenard did not discover almost two /
years ago. Roentgen has merely APP
piled the discovery Of Lenard and OBJ /
tanned some startling results. In the 4
great excitement that has followed .
Roentgen's practical application of .
Lenard's theories. drawn from his dis /
coveries the simple and careful paper .
OF the latter in which he so modestly |
and at such great length set forth his
experiments has we'll nigh been lost
sight Of"
Professor Wright threw upon a
screen the full series OF pictures which
he has made during his experiments.
The last Of these pictures was Of a rab-
bit. showing the skeleton with wonder
full detail and the shot in the body'that
killed the animal Professor Wright at
first thought the shot marks We're de-
fects in his plate but ~ dissecting
the rabbit found the shot exactly where
they We're located by the picture This
picture shows the possible use OF ca
thode Photography in surgery.
The path for the future discoveries
seems TO be in the proper
ties % these mysterious rays" said
Professor Wright. In the experiments
that We have made here. ! have been
particularly Interested in the observa-
ton made by Professor Roentgen that
the rays which we get outside the va
,uum tube are not cathode rays at all.
but new property OF light. ] DO not
agree with Professor EOcntgen on this
point From the experiments that
have made recently and from former
experiments / believe that the glass
II the tube only acts as a training pro-