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...electrons butted the constituents of atoms around to degrees and for effects which physicists are still trying to calculate. Last year Robert Andrews Millikan's California Institute of Technology assistants developed a 1,000,000-volt tube whose rays could be detected 300 ft. away. Last week the Caltech men were experimenting with a new tube which may eventually produce the equivalent of 5,000,000 controlled volts...
...electrons off the cathode at tremendous speed. The electrons rush through a stream of mercury vapor ions overloaded with four charges of positive electricity. Ions and electrons crash and reinforce their speeds, giving the stupendous effect of 1,000,000 volts. If the 1,000,000 volts available at Caltech were used initially, the effect would be four times as powerful. If, as the physicists hope, they can load the mercury ions five or six times, they expect to get the equivalent of five or six million volts, wherefrom rays could penetrate the thickest man-made utensil, could pop atoms...