
X-rays enter medicine
Reports of Rontgen's discovery spread rapidly into medical and popular discussion. Newspaper pages from 1896 to 1897 on a map and timeline.
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… fracture were imperceptible under the strongest ordinary light The to I called X rays made them as plain as day on the photograph I Irof Czermark of Gru has succeeded …
… differ from Cathode ray investigated by Irof Lcnard To tho question what ar these X rays If they are lot Cathodu rays Irof Hoot gen brings forward the hypothesis that possibly …
… If tills should on fuller Investigation really turn out to bo the case anti the X rays of Irof I ltotit gen are really I duo to Mich longitudinal vi I I brations 1 great …
New-York Tribune — 1896-01-31, page 14
… These inv.s ble rays, which have been n hy their discover the “X Strahl#m,’ or X Rays, are found to have properties never nhefore met with in physical research. They …
New-York Tribune — 1896-02-03, page 5
… rapid. He TRIAN STATUE Bavarian emphasizes his reasons for believing that the “X rays,” as he prefers to ca:l them, are not took a vote upon the matter and decided not …
… propesitions he has this to say: In the passage through air, a smaller proportion of the X rays than of cathode rays are absorbed. Again, the direction of the latter can be changed …
… while the course of the former cannot, He believes, however, that the origin of the X rays is at that portion of the walls of the tube where the cathode rays produce the …
New-York Tribune — 1896-02-06, page 8
… had been assumed, from the current accounts of Rintgen's work, that the unseen X rays, which exert a chem- {cal influence con the sensitive flims a photographic plate …
… pletures, but is studying the i affording additional accommodation under which the X rays can be most advantiy sly 1,000 pupils 1s occupied at present by an generated and …
The Journal — 1896-02-06, page 4
… answer to the fre quent query how it is we know that there is such a thing as 'X rays,' notwithstand ing that they are not perceptible by any of our senses. "We know …
New-York Tribune — 1896-02-08, page 9
… New wtiil unset da. an: othe” cli am ey AR cr.aments with ‘Professor Hontgen's X rays, and York Stat I do nat Kno v single case It is 00 against the Trust, but many …
New-York Tribune — 1896-02-09, page 12
… incdndescent bulb, and varlous metalic objects which have been subjected to the “X'" rays obtained therefrom have been clearly and distinctly impressed upon sensitive flims …
… partly visibie, might not produce tha effect thus far alleged to be pecuilar to the “X" rays of the Crookes tube. The resuit of some of his recent experiments would seem to …
New-York Tribune — 1896-02-10, page 4
… although he almits it may take time before anything tion is achieved. bridge that the “X'" rays are “cantankerous” end require delicate handling and perfect understanding. Professor …
The Journal — 1896-02-10, page 5
… Its Infancy. We ion't. know what the light is that does it." EXPIANATION OF THE X RAYS. Professor Pupln, of Columbia College, Fays that the cathode rays within the tube …
… were projected with tremendous force against the glass of the tube, and that the X rays, the penetrating rays,\ were born at the glass, w here it became luminous from …
… brush rays of the I-Ioltz machine are by no means an unknown quantity, as are the X rays, and yet Pro fessor Doremus finds that their penetrating and photographic power …
New-York Tribune — 1896-02-11, page 2
… successfully cont no novel features Cathode rays and Rintgen, or the so-called X, rays are two totally dieeimilar things, but in many instances this differsnce has appacently …
… is also another form of radiant energy generated there which Rontgen calls the X rays. These—and the fact should be emphasized—are not cathode rays, an H although they …
… during the last two Weeks has displayed remarkable energy in experimenting with the X rays, and who introduced the use of the fluorescent plate with satisfactory re sults …
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