 | 1896 - 624 pages
...eighth of November." " And what was the discovery ? " " I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide...greater and greater distances, even at two metres. Jt seemed at first a new kind of invisible light. It was clearly something new, something unrecorded."... | |
 | 1896 - 906 pages
...tube, since its effect indicated that it could come from nowhere else. He tested it. In a few moments there was no doubt about it; rays were coming from...tube which had a luminescent effect upon the paper. He tried it successfully at greater and greater distances, even at two metres. It seemed at first a... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1897 - 348 pages
...8th of November." " And what was the discovery ? " " I was working with a Crookes's tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platinocyanide...even at two metres. It seemed at first a new kind of light. It was clearly something new, something unrecorded." " Is it light ?" " No." [It can neither... | |
 | Alphonso David Rockwell - 1903 - 688 pages
...tube, since its effect indicated that it could come from nothing else, he tested it. In a few moments there was no doubt about it ; rays were coming from...tube, which had a luminescent effect upon the paper. He tried it successfully at greater and greater distances, even at two metres. It seemed at first a... | |
 | Ray Eldon Hiebert, Roselyn Hiebert - 1971 - 100 pages
...of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench and I noticed a peculiar line across the paper. ... In a few minutes there was no doubt about it, rays were coming from the tube. ... It was something new, something unrecorded." On November 5, 1895, he turned on the current and... | |
 | Edward C. Halperin, Carlos A. Perez, Luther W. Brady - 2008 - 2152 pages
...working with a Crookes' tube covered with a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platinocyanoide paper lay on the bench there. I had been passing a...coming from the tube which had a luminescent effect on the paper. I tried it successfully at greater and greater distances, even at two metres. It seemed... | |
 | Frank A. J. L. James - 2007 - 401 pages
..."The 8th of November." "And what was the discovery?" "I was working with a Crookes's tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide...even at two metres. It seemed at first a new kind of light. It was clearly something new, something unrecorded." "Is it light?" "No." [It can neither be... | |
 | 132 pages
..."The eighth of November." "And what was the discovery?" "I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide...successfully at greater and greater distances, even at two meters. It seemed at first a new kind of invisible light. It was clearly something new, something unrecorded.... | |
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The effect was one which could only be produced, in ordinary parlance, by the passage of light. No light could come from the tube, because the shield which covered it was impervious to any light known, even that of the electric arc." "And what did you... 