Roentgen rays
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When the flying electrons strike upon a little metal target placed in their path, they produce the well-known 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
The third are very penetrating rays, which are not deflected by electricity and which are seemingly identical with Roentgen rays.
From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Henry Smith Williams
Further investigations by Lord Kelvin, Beattie, Smolan, and Rutherford confirmed the fact that, like the Roentgen rays, the uranium rays not only acted upon the photographic plate but discharged electrified bodies.
From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Henry Smith Williams
The operating rooms, kitchens, wards, rooms for operating by Roentgen rays, and even a chapel have been installed.
From With the Allies by Richard Harding Davis
Beyond eight hundred vibrations there is plenty of light, invisible to our eyes, known as chemical rays and probably the Roentgen rays.
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
