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Burned blackly into medical annals is the fire in Surgeon George Washington Crile's .Cleveland Clinic (TIME, May 27, 1929). The fire occurred in a basement room wherein were stored x-ray films. The burning films emitted fumes (carbon monoxide and nitrogen tetroxide) which killed scores of Dr. Crile's patients, doctors and employes on the spot. Other scores died during the following weeks. Deaths eventually totalled...
Since the fire more and more hospitals have been using non-inflammable x-ray films exclusively...
Among those who have been bombarding atoms with alpha particles are Mme Curie's daughter, Irene Curie-Joliot, her husband F. Joliot, Dr. Chadwick and Professor Walter Bothe of Giessen, Germany. Professor Bothe, bombarding beryllium, decided he was creating an artificial super-gamma ray. Dr. Chadwick decided that a proton and an electron knocked loose by alpha particles might combine, without any electrical charge at all, in one unit to make a neutron. This self-contained unit might be the ultimate unit of magnetism, having within itself opposite poles...
...repeated experiment it is known that any electrically charged form of matter will penetrate paraffin, for example, more easily than lead. Bombarding lithium with alpha particles from polonium, the Curies found they were knocking out a ray that penetrates lead more easily than paraffin. By empirical reasoning, the ray produced must be a new kind of ray, since it breaks all known rules. The Curies concluded their ray "cannot be of an electronic or electromagnetic nature." It is probably a ray of neutrons. Irene Curie-Joliot and her husband did much of the preliminary work in radiation that helped Neutron...
...Cincinnati, Judge Samuel W. Bell was disturbed by the hammering of an electrician outside his courtroom. Ordering him sent in, irate Judge Bell sentenced Electrician Ray Burke to five days in jail for "disturbing the peace...