Roentgen rays
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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
A few years ago when many distinguished scientists celebrated in Berlin the discovery of the Roentgen rays, Mr. Roentgen himself was not present.
From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton)
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 Williams, Henry Smith
Clearly this was the manifestation of a property heretofore unknown in any natural substance, and was strikingly similar to the action of the Roentgen rays.
From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith
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 Gibson, Charles R. (Charles Robert)
