New-York tribune., 1896-01-19

glass The collision produces a certain amount OF
heat. which he calls radiant heat, and as the
molecules behave in such an UNUSUAL way under
these conditions OF rarefaction ard e,ectrihcatoh
Crookes thinks he has found fourth state of mat
ter different from the solid. the liquid or the
gaseous. Professor J. !. Thomson OF CamDriuge' , @
planation in the main. although nci!ning 20 ,ne
belief that it s the atoms. and not the moiecues'
which produce this faint illumna tioh. ., NTH
Now II ~ with crookes tuoe operate ,i VII
an induction coil. that Professor Hon'stn obtains
frs; received lef some doubt whether m places
ri. device behind the object: 20 tnat its ray my
pass through the latter to the lPnsles; camera of
near the 10 illuminate the ffohi o. tie
object. The former arrangement proves TO De e t.e
actually employed. and IS obviously tne. most
rational Since The visible light. a; best - iee9ie.
II does not appear probable tha' II is sn'S, ,bjcb p"
npreasss the Photographic plate or 'wna' ain,umos
TO the same thingI a.sensit!zel raper substahc :
transparent 10 electricity. while another gas,
Tor example, will transni, former ard stop
the passage Of the latter. But hertz has shown
thai there il still another form OF "neisy VIII m.inn
boih to lisht ana c.ecrrici'v. nowev.r wn"tn az
that the parti 'ular agent WI iniGe 9ih u
easy answered "r at present Il Is evident that
have much to earn yet about the properties OF
matter ana the properties Of hitherto un;ecoenizei
rates OF vibration. ,,
Professor R6ntsen. it seems. made his discovery
a Crookes tube covered with cloth. Near 1t lay
some prepared Photographic paper Next gay tnere ERE
The professors curiosity and suspicious were exx-
ct"1. a1d he proceeded 10 make some uslS' Il'
found that his tube the source or the nys'er-
ious influence, and that cloth cover was no barrier
10 the latter. Furthermore. II was apparent that
lens necessary. on the other nand the
rays which do the work cannot be refracted IN
deed n lens Is worse than useless. Vienna paper
says that the image is no; obtained II lens is
used Professor R1ntgen is reported 70 nave ascer-
characteristics: They do not travel N waves, nu'
move forward in direct line professor $50 bol,z
mann. Vienna physicist. thinks mat me a;scov
cry Of this new light" as he calls IL, MARKS an
epoch in the history of science. and, while recos
nizng there points which need 10 be cleared
up he il no longer skeptcll.
Further tests by Professor ROneen show that me
mysterious rad ance will penetrat, dium mum pate :
a quarter OF ar inch thick. and also number or
books. Al Vienna attempts 10 repeat these w)nier-
ful experiments have not been very successful but
Professor lIupsrthy, at the University or Pesth mas
duplicated nearly all OF Professor Rongens expert
ments
II viii be remembered that the light in Crookes
tube emanates from the negative electroIe. or
cathode. Curious enough. II Is only lew DAYS
since VI. Jean Perr.er read a paper on this subject
before the Paris Academy Of Sciences. According
the views OF G,llsteln Hertz. and l.enar1, the
ca athode rays due Ike light. TO a vibration OF
the ether while CrOokes and J. j. Thompson prefer
20 attribute the phcnC mend TO matter cnarg ne "a
lively travelling with n high veoc ty All III" result
Of the remely ingenious eNpcr meats or NJ f'rrltr
tend that The latter New IS the correct one