Roentgen rays
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The pure search for truth and knowledge was not lowered when the electrical waves were harnessed for wireless telegraphy, or the Roentgen rays were forced into the service of surgery.
From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg
The rays producing this glow were not the cathode rays, although apparently arising from them, and are what have since been called the Roentgen rays, or X-rays.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams
Luckily, not even Roentgen rays could discover what a store of drawings, charts, and fortress plans I keep in my memory.
From The Coming Conquest of England by August Niemann
The Efficacy of Small Doses The late revelations of chemistry, Roentgen rays, x-rays, radio-activity of metals, etc., throw an interesting light upon the seemingly infinite divisibility of matter.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
I must tell you of my own experiences in connection with these X-rays, which I hear some men describe also as Roentgen rays.
From Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Gibson
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