The young German gentleman of the name of Rontgen, who left England. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
But what I am anxious to arrive at is it is one thing for instance to invent those rays Rontgen did or the telescope like Edison, though I believe it was before his time. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
As Nobel physics laureates, Fert and Gruenberg join the ranks of some of the greatest names in science, such as Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Niels Bohr and Wilhelm Rontgen — who won the first prize in 1901 for his discovery of X-rays. From Wordnik.com. [Nanotechnology Pioneers Win Physics Nobel | Impact Lab] Reference
It was found by Faraday that many other transparent media besides heavy glass would show the phenomenon if placed between the poles, only in a less degree; and the very important observation that air itself exhibits the same phenomenon, though to an exceedingly small extent, has just been made by Kundt and Rontgen in Germany. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
Then with those Rontgen rays searchlight you could. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
It's a sort of Rontgen ray intelligence, which I wouldn't have for worlds. From Wordnik.com. [Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl] Reference
#What several grades of x-ray dermatitis (x-ray burns, Rontgen-ray burns) are observed?. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
The Rontgen rays need not hurt the patient; and spectrum analysis involves no destruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors] Reference
I have seen my own heart beating as its image was thrown on the screen by the Rontgen rays. From Wordnik.com. [Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance] Reference
No, not these Rontgen vibrations -- I don't know that these others of mine have been described. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
His eyes penetrate the masks and wrappings which cover human nature, as the Rontgen rays penetrate the human body. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne]
I think I can truly say that I owe almost as much to Professor Stark as to any man for the publicity given to my own work on Rontgen radiation. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Glover Barkla - Banquet Speech] Reference
Rontgen won the first ever Nobel Prize for Physics, Nobel Prizes were awarded for the serendipitous discoveries of restriction endonucleases and RNA interference. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
Pasteur, who found a cure for rabies, Santos-Dumont, who has almost succeeded in navigating the air, Professor Rontgen who discovered the X-ray -- are not all these immortals Europeans?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life] Reference
We think, perhaps, in our day that we have reached the top of the tree of knowledge, and we wonder how people could get along twenty years ago without knowing anything about-perhaps Rontgen rays or something like that. From Wordnik.com. [Antarctic Exploration] Reference
The day after the accident Eloquent called at Marlehouse Infirmary to ask for Buz, and was informed that the arm had been set successfully, that it was a bad break, but that the Rontgen rays had been used, and it was going on satisfactorily. From Wordnik.com. [The Ffolliots of Redmarley] Reference
Professor Rontgen, of Wirzburg, profiting by Lenard's results, accidentally discovered that the rays coming from a Crookes tube, through the glass itself, could photograph the bones in the living hand, coins inside a purse, and other objects covered up or hid in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Electricity] Reference
According to Rontgen, these "x" rays, as he calls them, are not true cathode rays, partly because they are not deflected by a magnet, but cathode rays transformed by the glass of the tube; and they are probably not ultra-violet rays, because they are not refracted by water or reflected from surfaces. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Electricity] Reference
May we hope that the Rontgen Rays may soon be sufficiently developed to enable us to photograph it through the boards of the ancient door, the hinges of which, we may add, are worthy of notice. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Rontgen employs an induction coil insulated in oil to excite the Crookes tube and yield the rays, but Mr. Swinton uses a "high frequency current," obtained from apparatus similar to that of Tesla, and shown in figure 100, namely, a high frequency induction coil insulated by means of oil and excited by the continuous discharge of twelve half-gallon Leyden jars charged by an alternating current at a pressure of 20,000 volts produced by an ordinary large induction coil sparking across its high pressure terminals. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Electricity] Reference
Rontgen saw through everybody. From Wordnik.com. [2009 May « Items of Interest] Reference
An electric battery, too; and look here, both of you: the Rontgen rays. ". From Wordnik.com. [In the Mahdi's Grasp] Reference
I little thought I should have to operate out here with the Rontgen rays. ". From Wordnik.com. [In the Mahdi's Grasp] Reference
Yet, as he passed out of the fitting tomblike gloom of the apartment and descended the stairs, he murmured to himself: "Odd that I should have lent him my camera with the Rontgen-ray attachment still on. From Wordnik.com. [Condensed Novels: New Burlesques] Reference
Rontgen, 341. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
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