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Died. Dr. Robert Abbe, 76, cancer specialist, friend and associate of Mme. Curie in Paris, first surgeon to introduce radium treatment in U. S.; in Manhattan; of aplastic anemia...
...wines in a glass tube and in the tube created a vacuum. Then he shunted a current of electricity into the wires. The current sent a stream of electrons speeding from one of the wires, the cathode. They were cathode rays and they behaved in some ways like radium, soon after to be discovered by the Curies. They made the vacuum tube glow with-brilliant fluorescence. If a piece of metal were sealed in the tube, in the path of the rays, the metal became very hot. It also cast a sharp shadow on the wall of the tube...
...hair varies between 6/1000 and 126/10,000 of an inch in diameter.) And he used 350,000 volts of current. Electrons hurtled through the nickel foil, speeding about 150,000 miles a second (four-fifths the speed of light). As beta and gamma rays, similar to the offshoots from radium, they turned acetylene gas into a yellow powder such as scientists never before had seen. They made minerals fluoresce, killed bacteria and insects, burned a rabbit's ears (TIME...
Tandem Tubes. To get gamma rays to rush as fast from his tube as they do from radium, Dr. Coolidge would need about 2,000,000 volts of electricity. To get beta rays as penetrating as those from radium, he would need 3,000,000 volts. If he could create such voltages and if he could direct them properly, he would be, according to Philosopher Henri Bergson, at the heart of the world. Dr. Coolidge has succeeded in using 900,000 volts effectively. How he worked, he described to the engineers at Manhattan last week after receiving his latest medal...
Utility. These artificial radium rays left the tube in quantities naturally obtainable from a ton of radium. That much radium has not yet been produced. If it existed, at present prices it would be worth $56,000,000,000. The uses of so much energy are unfortellable...