The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

CHAPTER XXV.

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THE ROENTGEN OR X-RAYS.

Geissler Tubes. Vacuum Tubes of Crookes, Hittorf, and Lenard. The Cathode Ray. Roentgen’s Great Discovery in 1895. X-Ray Apparatus. Salvioni’s Cryptoscope. Edison’s Fluoroscope. The Fluorometer. Sun- burn from X-Rays. Uses of X-Rays.