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 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 Münsterberg, Hugo
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
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
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
