Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-03-06
STILL NEW WONDERS.
SOME POSSIBILITIES OF PROFESSOR
ROEnTGEN's GREAT DISCOVERY.

SOME POSSIBILITIES OF PROFESSOR
RoEETGEN's GREAT. DISCOVERY.
.sYour Skeleton While You Wait" MAy ~.
come n Common Sjgn-Reoent Expsri.
,nents by Professor swinton IN L.oadoa.
still In . Worry Imperfect State. -s8
\ great deal continues to be printed IN
Lont!o:, about the new Roentgenl photOg.
ruphy operations, and the experiments
with it by grave scientists suggest the
i,rs-jut. children Of larger growth are
til kicti Ivy the new toy--that all thesex-
r, liments and developments only show
thnt man has not begun to master the dis
coye-y, which still does rs 1t wants, re-
fu ing to be trained or perfected.
The pictures taken thus far, though
wound. rful In the extreme, are only shadow
prints or sun pictures. All leave out the
s,.h- lance penetrated by the new rays and
show black shadows of impervious objects
We read In the correspondence from the
continent that Belgium has already adopt
I'll Ito new process, and that her govern
ment Las ordered every hospital to besup-
piled with paraphernalia for aiding the
surgeons. r - 30 ,""-l@.' - IA e.sss
Y ,th these mysterious pictures bullets
and otbor foreign substances In the flesh
ar,l bones of patients have already been
LOCATED successfully In innunerable in
stances in half tho countries In what we
US, ID 10 consider "slow old Europe !"
Perhaps the most interesting success
titus far attained is that recorded in the
news from Vienna, where calcareous de.
DOS in various parts of the human sys-
tenn have been marvelously exposed. Prac-
tcally the same thing has been shown in
the photograph of q mans hand obtained
~ Can: pbell Swinton for ono Of the news.
parers here. The hand was that Of
Eeulthy man, but shows slight protuber-
AMOS at the middle joints of two fingers,
whcrel. pom medical men deduce the theory
that IT'S owner is certain to be victim Of
govt before many years. .....e
Swil.ton ID now deluged with letters
from medical men who wish to make use
of the new discovery. One hopes to find q
fishbone In a patients throat, another
hopes trace coin a man has swallowed,
and still another wants the photographers
l;rcof that q patients broken wrist has
been badly set. .... #5%
All this leads The Chronicle to assert
that we shall soon be living In Palace
of Truth" with all the discomforts set
forth in Gilbert's play. "Your Skeleton
While You Wait" says The Chronicle,
will be common street sign.
L A Jenna man has already had his brain
photographed and has been unable to
sleep ever since. But much the best wit
ticism on the all engrossing subject Is
that of the city promoter who says he In
Ah1 o1o koA fOp.
use on the camera and to sell machines at
spap shots at fashionable men and women
In Regent street can be taken as II the
pedestrians left their clothes at home.
What the new invention cannot do Is
almost as wonderful as what 1t will do.
The light, or electric current or rays, or
whatever 1t is, passes through many
OPAQUE substances, yet refuses to pass
through materials considered transparent.
| Wood, carbon, aluminium, ebonite, paper,
! papier maohe, human flesh and leather
4 are transparent to this new current, and
! copper is partially SO, but nearly all metals
and bone are Opaque. ..%:. -. "a
Alfred Binet, the French scientist, gum
med some metal figures on thick sheet
of cardboard, then photographed 1t and
| got q we'll defined picture of the metal fig
; ures. He advances the astonishing theory
that what is possible to the new light may
be made also possible to human eyes. He
thinks the eyes may acquire new oondi-
ton under not impossible circumstances,
when of course such feats as reading dates
| of coins and numbers on bank notes crum-
| pied up In the human hand may be per-
| formed without any trick at all.
The papers announce that NJ. Darsonval,
the French electrician, has made an as
founding communication to the Academy
of Sciences, of which he is member. He
, gays that he has been informed by G. LIE.
bon that 1t is quite unnecessary to depend
on the unknown light of Crookes' tube.
Photographing through opaque bodies can
be done with ordinary light. A parafan
lamp will do 1t. -.
M, Lebon asserts that he has taken pho
tosraphs In this manner for several years.
He proceeds as follows: Inside box with
rather thin sides he places q sensitived
plate behind q negative. In 'front.' OF the
boz he places an iron plate. and on the
other side Of the plate lamp. After three
hours exposure the image ts found. On
DEVELOPMENT this image Is indistinct, but
II q sheet Of lead be placed behind the box
and folded over to touch the iron plate, SO
AS 10 xOExO u A0VoAAAO 0A1OsAt VAs0 AoPAS<A~S
ton of the negative for the same length of
exposure Il quite distinct. "..5
N. Darsonval adds that this experiment
cannot be accounted for on any existing
theories, NJ. Lebon ascertained that the
image was not due to any phosphorescent
Nsht which might have been stored up In
the negative. The experiment Will not
succeed II heat rays only are used.
Professor Neuser Of Vienna is preparing
10 photograph the internal organs OF q 1iv-
Ing man. He hopes it will not be long
before his patient u saved . great deal OF
physical pain.
The London experiments thus far are
much simpler than the foreign, the papers
giving scientific explanations Of the meth
dds Of Roentgen not yet translated. 1t Is
stated that Crookes' tube Is obtainable at
any chemical apparatus shop, but is not
necessary. An ordinary electric light
bulb, from which the carbon filament has
been removed, will answer just as we'll.
Some authorities assert that the new
power is electricity. Others believe that
Roentgen has discovered new form Of
energy which probably works with longi-
tudinal and not transverse vibrations.
Whether this energy merely excites fuores-
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