CAMILLE COROT.
A BY-PATH.
EARLY MORNING.
DIANA'S BATH.
A SHALLOW RIVER.
THE EDGE OF THE FOREST (FONTAINEBLEAU).
ON THE RIVER OISE.
THE STORMY SEA.
A SUNLIT GLADE.
A SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK.
"THE MAN WITH THE LEATHERN BELT."
THE STONE-BREAKERS.
THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
SERVANT AT THE FOUNTAIN.
AN UNHAPPY FAMILY.
[Illustration: PICTURES TAKEN BY PROFESSOR ARTHUR W. WRIGHT OF YALE
COLLEGE, SHOWING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SUBSTANCES IN PENETRABILITY
TO THE ROeNTGEN RAYS.
1 and 3. Flint glass prism (very opaque).
2. Quartz prism, showing transmission of the rays through the thin
edges.
4. Prism of heavy glass, more opaque than flint glass.
5. One-cent coin, copper.
6. Five-cent coin, nickel.
7. White-crown glass, 11/2 millimetres thick.
8. Blue crown glass, 2 millimetres thick.
9. Yellow crown glass, 11/2 millimetres thick.
10. Crown glass, 1 millimetre thick, covered with a very thin layer of
gold.
11. Red crown glass, 2 millimetres thick.
12. Block of Iceland spar (very transparent to ordinary light, but
very opaque to Roentgen rays).
13. A bit of tinfoil.
14. Aluminium medal, showing faint traces of the design and lettering
on both sides, as if it were translucent.
15. Metallic mirror, shows no effect of regular reflection.
16. Bit of sheet-lead, 1 millimetre thick.
17. Quarter-of-a-dollar coin, silver.
18. Piece of thin ebonite, such as is used for photographic
plate-holder.]
[Illustration: DR. WILLIAM KONRAD ROeNTGEN, DISCOVERER OF THE X RAYS.
From a photograph by Hanfstaenge, Frankfort-on-the-Main.]
THE NEW MARVEL IN PHOTOGRAPHY.
A VISIT TO PROFESSOR ROeNTGEN AT HIS LABORATORY IN WUeRZBURG.--HIS OWN
ACCOUNT OF HIS GREAT DISCOVERY.--INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS WITH THE
CATHODE RAYS.--PRACTICAL USES OF THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHY.
BY H.J.W. DAM.
In all the history of scientific discovery there has never been,
perhaps, so general, rapid, and dramatic an effect wrought on the
scientific centres
Notka biograficzna
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