Roentgen rays
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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
The former are produced by the high tension electric apparatus, which we have described in the chapter relating to wireless telegraphy; and the latter, called also the Roentgen rays, are generated by the Crookes' Tube.
From Electricity for Boys by Zerbe, James Slough
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 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
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
