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Professor William Duane '93. Research Fellow in Physics, a noted Roentgen ray expert, is at present attempting to determine the structure of the atom by means of X-ray spectra. A current of tremendous voliage is projected into a Roentgen tube arranged in such a way that the X-ray generated will be passed through a diamond prism. The resulting spectrum is caught on a photographic plate...
Sinces the X-ray is composed of a stream of atoms, the spectrum may be used to find the composition of the individual atom by the Fraunhofer method...
Fruit flies and other insects withered under a fraction of a second's exposure, soon died. A rubber-plant leaf oozed white latex from millions of tiny punctures at one short dose of the ray...
Problems. Dr. Coolidge knew that the changes wrought by his tube and ray were accomplished, basically, by electronic dislocations and rearrangements. He had experimented with as much as 350,000 volts. What effects might be obtained with, say, two million volts, remained to be seen. How and why these effects came about were a whole volume of problems...
...thing he could be certain: the Cathode Ray would never be a war weapon unless whole armies were "marched right into it," for once outside their vacuum birthplace, the hurtling electrons all hit something soon and got slowed up; within a space of three feet when 350,000 volts were used; within five feet (calculated) if two million volts were used...