Roentgen rays
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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 Niemann, August
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 Warren, Henry White
Whether the Roentgen rays are really a form of light—that is, a form of "electro-magnetic disturbance propagated through ether," is not fully determined.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith
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 Williams, Henry Smith
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 Williams, Henry Smith
