Roentgen rays

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The operating rooms, kitchens, wards, rooms for operating by Roentgen rays, and even a chapel have been installed.

From With the Allies by Davis, Richard Harding

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 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

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

First of all it was subjected to the Roentgen rays, the result being to show that the interior was not homogeneous.

From William of Germany by Shaw, Stanley