Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-09

washington, D, c., oct. 3, 1871
,.,,oa through a microscope this AZ
-, which. I am told, will probably
.,,,rtionize our knowledge of the
.,.ri,i world. 1t has been invented
,,.,,, the present month. Its inven-
.is Professor Il. l.. Gates. the direc-
,,r ~ the laboratory of psychology
.,a nsvehurgy of this city. This new
,-.,rnment Professor Gates says eS-
Ids the power of the best present
--t,r,ecops as much as the present
'..,,,onc exceeds the power OF the
human eve. 1t will magnify an article
- million times its dimater, and
10, inventor tells me that he believes
=, will be able through it to photo
NH hinges which are one hundred
milan times the diameter of the
a.,rirsl object. These figures are so
..,,t that IL is Impossible for the com
.,or mind to grasp them. They repre-
cont success beyond the widest
dreams of the microscopists, and they
NAV open new world of scientific
Investigation.
LOOK AT A D1AToM.
The object which was placed in the
,-i,roscope for me to see was a diatom
one OF the smallest living beings that
can be seen with microscope.
patoms are invisible to the naked
I'VE. Professor Gates tells me that
,b,y are so small that the pinhead OF
ths earth In which they live often has
rs many as two million diatoms in 1t.
About a dozen Of these little things
were in a microscopical slide MS big
As silver hve-cent piece / first
looked at them through a micro
f,ope which magnihed twenty
times. Through this they APP
reared like little bits of dust or straw.
Next the side was placed in what the
Professor told me was the most power
iul microscope known to man. This
ragnded ton thousand diameters. The
magnihcatlon was SO great that one
Of the diltOms was all we could see.
It was now in the shape Of an elins-
with line running through the center,
end with texture which made me
think Of that Of the finest silk hand
ktTthicf 1t might have been made of
the most minute scales, but 1t looked
more like fine weaving than anything
tse. Then the new microscope was
us.d, and the magniication was now
great that l could only see one OF
Use little scale. / could sec that II
vas hpNugunul in shape, with a
fmy center. There were lines around
Re edges, and Prof. Gates said that
by adding a higher objective, one OF
these lines would take up the whole
Face of the microscope, and that II
one tried To see the whole image IL
would be so magniiied that for tho
observation of single diatom you
would need all out of doors for a
HTean.
TWO MICROSCOPES IN ONE.
As looked, Prof. Gates said: "Yor
t'e the third man in the world who
has ever seen diatOm magniticd t.
nat extent. | have here used one OF
he smaller detectives. You will
i9iice that I have two microscopes
.Ined together. You can note tht
numbers of the detectives, and 1t viii
t-iprlse scientists If you tell then
nat with Observation-Disclosures Bcci
objective and one-siNth Bousch ant
Lamb objective you saw the hexagona
opening OF the diatom known as
Rsurosgma angulatum. Now. did
Use Observation-Disclosures objective 70,
ny first microscope. we could only
He the line about the openinr. which
tould be enormously maFnitied N
What Is the chief element of the in.
'entlon Prof Gates?' / asked.
is more Of discovery than al
The micr6gc1urs mn ~ tho nrosent
tine have been limited 10 ton thou.
sand dampt,rs Nc cnt,Id antarrn IN,
lh1tographg of Images nrndured hy
sg,h micraseopes. hui the actIon of m,
lsht on the sensitive niate ia snci