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b (] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1896. ORIGIN OF THE ROENTGEN RAYS, The Statement of Professor Clarence L. Cory of Berkeley. LAW OF THE SOURCE. Many Successful Experiments at the Electrical Engineer- ing Laboratory. DEFINITE RESULTS REACHED. Science Now Looks to California to Solve the Problem of the Great German Discovery. BERKELEY, Car., April 1.—In regard to the recent investigations which have peen meade by Professor C. L. Cory, In- structor J. N. Le Conte and R. W. Loh- in the tube and about 1-20 of an inch in diameter) was the source of the rays. That the anodes themselves could not be the source of all the rays wasshown by the indistinct shad. ows of the nails, indicating that some of the rays came from a larger area than the surface of the thin wire anodes. We next made the twoend electrodes, the cathodes and the metal disk in the center of the anode. Radiographs were takea which show that the source of the rays was the center of the metal disk anode, the remainderof the anode, the cathodes and the florescent glass having no practical effect. Since the cathode rays from the fine wire cathodes impinged on the anode in the cénter and in 2 point, it seemed that the mere fact of cathode rays striking a solid made that solid a source of | Roentgen rays. Another tube was then tried. It is shown in fignre 1 and was used by us in connection with E. R. Drew, instructor in the physies de- partment, in some experiments which were carried on in our electrical engineering lab- oratory during' February. The aluminum Maltese cross is hinged so that it may be thrown down out of the way, or made. to stand upright, o thet when the small circular disk on the small end of the tube is the cathode, the shadow of the cross is cast on the large end of the tube, the glass being made bril- liantly floreseent except on the shaded por- tion. In the first experiment with this tube the aluminum cross in the center was made the anode and the small circular disk the cathode. The cross was made to stand in such a position that it received directly the cathode rays. The shadow of the cross was of course cast on the glass end of the tube. Radiographs were then made, plates five by seven in size being placed about 2} inches from the endsof the tube, one plate at each end as shown in figure 1. The result showed that the florescent glass at the ends of the tube was a source of the rays, but whether the aluminum_cross in the center gave off Roentgen rays could not definitely be decided. We next placed an 8x10 photographic plate under the tube, as shown in figure 1, and the result was & very clearly defined negative. The t0 have had & much more marked effect than in any of the previous experiments. Some of the most interesting experiments were repeated with another tube, having a platinum (disk in between the anode and ca- thode. The cathode slide of the platinum’disk seemed to still be the best source of the Roent- gen rays, while the reverse side gave fvery few, showing clearly that the platinum is much more opaque than aluminum, just as has been shown by many others in the ordi- nary way. The result of the experiments so far seems to indicate the following as regards the true source of the Roentgen rays: Cathode rays positively electrify any solid upon which they impinge, prob- ably by carrying electrified particles to | the solid. The source of the Roentgen rays, then, is the solid upon which the | cathode ray first strikes and gives up or partially gives up its negative charge. A second solid behind the first may be a source of Roentgen rays if the first solid does not take up the entire nega- tive charge from the cathode ray. One of the old experiments with a Crookes tubes is that if the shape of the cathode is such i that the cathode rays focus on any solid, such as a platinum plate, the plate is made hot, and if the side of the glass tube is thus exposed it is meited. If & metal is used as the solid to receive the cathode rays the number and intensity of Roentgen rays emanaiing there- from are much greater than .if thatsolid is glass. Aluminum is particularly fitted for such purposes, as it is very transparent to the | Roentgen rays. By focusing the cathode rays |on such an sluminum disk the maximum | effort would be produced and indicates how | best to make a Crookes tube for experiments | in Roentgen photography. The Roentgen rays may therefore proceed from the anode, the florescent glass, a discon- nected terminal ora grounded terminal, pro- vided the shape of the tube and the relative positions of the electrodes be such that the cathode rays impinge on theanode, glass, dis- connected or grounded terminal respectively. That the anode, because it s the anode. may be the source of the Roentgen rays is probable, ('fl’h | il il Figure 1—Showing the Tube and Its Arrangement for Most of the Experiments Carried On by the Professors at the Uni- versity of California in Their Great Work of Determining the Origin of the Wonderful Roentgen Rays. [Drawn from a photograph taken at the University for “The Call.”) man of the department of electrical engi- neering at the State University, concerning the true source of the Roentgen rays, the following description of their experiments | has been prepared by them for T'HE CALL: THE SOURCE OF THE ROENTGEN RAYS. Ever since the discovery by Professor Roent- gen that it 1s possible 1o take radiographs by mesns of & Crookes tube, excited by means of an induction coil or static machine, experi- ments have been carried on in many places to either repeat some of Roentgen’s original ex- periments, or to investigate the true nature, action sud production of the new rays. One of the things that has especially interested the scientific investigator has been the divergence of opinion among. the leading scientific men s regards the true source of the Roentgen rays. Professor Woodwerd was perhaps one of the first 10 show the glass vacuum envelope is not necessarily the only source of the Roentgen rays. -By means of his ‘ray lamp” the rays were generated in the aluminum side of the tube itself. - Professor Rowland and Professor Elthu Thomson have each published articles the conclusions of which are that, with the tubes they wused, the Roentgen rays proceeded from the ‘anode. Professor Macfarlane in the Elec- trical World of March 14 describes some ex- periments made with a cylindrical Crookes tube ten. inches long and one and a half inches in digmeter, the cathode being the metal disk placed in the center and the anodes etthe two ends. The results indicated that the ends of the tube were the sources of the | Tays. . One would conciude, however, from Protessor Macfarlane’s statement that the floreseent glass was the source of the rays. Dr. Phillip Mills Jones of San Francisco, who has made & number of extended experiments recently, came to the conclusion that the ac- tive rays came from the anode. Another of his conciusions was “that the X rays do not emanate from the glass, as advanced by Roent- gen.” - Such was the divergence of opinion that we began on March 23 in the electrical en- gineering laboratory of the University of Cal fornia extended experiments with & large num- ber of differently shaped Crookes tubes with various positions of the cathode and anode terminals, with the attempt to get the true source of the rays. Thin pine boards 34 of an inch thick and hav- ing an area 3x4 inches were carefully marked oft in squares of 14 an inch on each side. Thin wire nails were then driven upright in the boards at the corners of the squa These were used as objects as in Professor Macfar- lane’s experiments. The size of the plates used were'8x10 and 57, so that a large area was in- eluded. -With a tube exactly similar to the one used by Professor Maciarlane his experiments were first carefully repeated with twenty min. utes’ exposure. The resuits indicated that the florescent glass around the anodes (which were small aluminum wires extending % of an inch NEW TO-DAY. od Humors RY humor, whether itching, burning, ) blceding, acaly, crusted, plmply, or blotchy, whether simple, scrofulous,'or hereditary, from Aafaucy o age, are now speedily cured by (Uticura Resolvent A BKIN and blood purifier of incomparable purity and curative power. Purely vegeta. ble, eafe, innocent, and palatable. It appeals to all, and especially mothers, nurses, and children, hout the world. Price. CuTicuRA, Se.t ksoLvENT, Sc. and $1. POTTEE DRUR Sole Proy pi., Boston. ‘Biood aud Skir. Humors,” fres. Bold Boar, e.; axp Curx. Cor.. s How o Cure was four inches and the time 0f exposure was forty minutes. Besides the thin boards filled | with nails, keys and coins were also placed on the plate, with the hope that if they cast double shadows the two sources of the rays might be better indicated by them than the nails, The print clearly shows that the side of the anode which was facing the cathode was the source of the Roentgen rays in greatest num- ber and intensity, while the reverse side was also the source of some of the rays, but not to the same extent as the side facing the cathode. The line dividing the two is blurred, as the cross was not exactly a plane. Double shadows of the coins and keys, as well as the nails, were cast ‘from the florescent glass at the ends of the tube, which can be seen in the negative, but which cannot be made out from the print. The florescent glass then was a source of the Roentgen rays, but the number and intensity coming therefrom are small as compared with the metal anode. The glass, which was flores- cent, was directly in the path of the cathode rays. At the same time that this radiograph was made a plate was exposed at the large eud of the tube upon which the shadow of the alumi- num Cross was cast. three-eighths of an inch in diameter was piaced between the end of the tube and the photographic plate, to cut off if possible any effect trom the florescent glass. The only por- tion of the glass of the tube which could affect | the plate in the region of the hole was that | shaded by the cross. The plate indicated that the Roentgen rays came from the reverse side of the anode, the negative being very dark in the center where the plate was exposed through the holein the lead plate. The flor- escent glass, however, which was beyond the sheding action of the aluminum cross, and, therefore, received the cathode discharge di- rect, did have an effect on the plate, Jthe shadow of the nails near the edges of the plate showing clearly. Finally, to show that the anode is not neces- sarily the source of the Roentgen rays unless it receives the cathode rays on its surface, the experiment was tried of making the anode a tinfoil plate pasted on the exterior of the glass tube. Accordingly the anode was put on the tube ordinarily shaded by the cross. The catnode was as before the small disk electrode in the painted endof the tube. Thealuminum cross was disconnected entirely, 5o that it was neither enode nor cathode, but was placed in such a position that it received directly the cathode rays. Another large plate was then exposed parallel to the axis of the tube as in the previons experiment when the aluminum cross was the anode. The resulting radiograph was a negative that shows that the side of the aluminum cross facing the cathode was the principal source of the rays, just as it had been in the previous experiment. The side of the aluminum cross facing the anode was also a source of the rays, but the number and intensity were less from the cathode side. The florescent glass cast the double shadows as before, and perhaps to a little greater extent than in the former care when the aluminum cross was the anode. A plate was then exposed to the end of the tube, upon which had been pasted the tinfoil on the outside, as the anode. The result indi- cates that some Roentgen rayscame from the aluminum cross, and in the central portion passed through the tinfoil anode and the glass of the tuve affecting the plate. The negative secured thusshows the radio- graph taken when the aluminum cross was neither anode nor cathode but was connected to the ground through a water pipe. The anode was, as before, the tinfoil plate and the cathode was the circular disk electrode in the small end of the tube. The whole appearance of the tube was changed, the shadow of the cross on the end of the tube being much en- larged. Tpe cross was hinged on the top and swung freely back and forth as the current was turned on and off. When the connection was permanently made the cross swung oves toward the cathode as if atiracted toward it. The sources of the rays when the cross was connected to the earth seemed to ‘be many, al- though still the cross gave out the greater number. The tlorescent glass, however, scems A lead plate with ahole | | distance of the plate from the axis of the tube ! but the fact is that in almost every case when | the anode has been found to be the source of the rays the shape of the tube has been such that the cathode rays impinged directly upon | it. The use o a disconnected terminal, even | connected to the earth as the source of the | rays, places the matter ina very different light. The induction coil used was one made by Mr. Lohman, a student in the electrical en- gineering department of this university, and although of very small dimensions is capable of giving a four and a half inch spark, the en- tire coil being immersed in boiled linseed oil. The intermittent current was obtained by mounting a brass disk three inches in diame- ter and one-fourth of an inch thick with eight slots in its circumference filled with vuleanite fiber, on the shaft of a small motor. The duration of the make was about twice that of the break. The number ef revolutions per second of the motor was between twenty and fifty, giving between 160 and 400 makes and breaks per second. A rapid interruption with the spark gap,and a large magnet was used to blow out the spark. Mr. Lohman has | also constructed a Tesla coil, which we have | used with much success by connecting one | terminal of the secondary to the Crookes tube. It should be said in conclusion that Dr. | Jones’ experiments have led him to conclude | that the cathode ray impinging on a solid pro- duces the Roentgen rays, but he seems to be of | the opinion that the florescent glass can have 10 effect whatever. Our experiments are being continued with a number of different shaped tubes. The results so far tend to confirm the results of our earlier work. A number of special tubes, some with aluminum windows, are being made which, without doubt, will make it possible to make clear and distinct radiographs with a very short exposure, CLARENCE L. Cory, Electrical Engineering Laboratory, Uuiversity of California, Berkeley, Cal. April 1, 1896, A series of experiments were made to- day by Instructor Drew of the physics department with the Crookes tube where the only source of the Koentgen rays was the glass of the tube itself. A very dis- tinct radiograph was made teading to still further confirm the results of the experi- ments conducted in the electrical engi- neering laboratory. COURSING TABOOED. Secretary Holbrook Says Sportsmen Have No Use for It. Secretary Holbrook of the Society for the Prevention of Cruélty to Animals has delegatea Officer Hooper to investigate the rumor as to the opening of a coursing park near the Branch County Jail. The story that John Dalton is about to open such a park has taken on the color- ing that the place 1s to be opened within the tngleside track. Secretary W. S. Leake of the racific Coast Jockey Club contra- dicted this story to a CALL reporter yester- day. There has never been such an infention,” said he, *‘In 1act, there is no place for a park, should it be desired to open one.” Secretary Holbrook is a strong anti- coursing man. *“Coursing undoubtedly belongs™ in the category of unnecessa: cruelty probibited by law,” he said. ‘‘Men have told me that a dog never touches a hare with its teeth: that he kills it by striking it with his nose. I happen to know that isn’t true. More than once I have seen dogs mutilate a rabbit while it was still alive, and | have known the little animlas to live twenty minutes after being caught. Genuine sporting men say they have no use for coursing: that it is not legitimate sport. If a park is opened within the county Limits I will arrest those concerned in it.” e JusT received. Newest and latest articles in leather, including pocket-books made of bird skin, leopard, levant brown and black alligator in colors, purses, card-cases dress-suit cases, traveling cases, c nese baskets, atc. Vail & CALIFBRNIANS ROASTED. Century Magazine Comments on Yosemite Valley Mis- management. RECESSION OF THE TRUST. Tyranny and Greed of the Yosemite Ring — Scandal of the Situation. The Century Magazine for April again takes up the subject of Yosemite Valley management by the State of California, and advocates a surrender of the trust to the General Government. The article in the editorial department of the magazine is under the heading, “Plain Words to Californians.” Following is a synopsis of the plain talk: . It is announced that during the month of May of the present year there will be held in the city of New York a unique and significant exposition, consisting entirely of the products of the State of California. But for the short- sighted and unvatriotic policy which has con- trolled its railway system California would to-day be as well known in New York asany State of the Middle West, and it is in keeping with the commercial enterprise of its people that in spite of such discouragements they boldly undertake to send acrossa continenta comprehensive exhibit of its imperial re- sources. It is & scheme in which Americans may well take pride and to which they will wish the widest publicity and the highest success. From the days of the gold hunters an air of romance and adventure has been associated with this region as with no other part of the country; and those especially | who have visited this wonderful and beautiful State, and whose imagination has been touched by its possibilities of good to the race, can never divest themselves of a_personal interest in anything that touches its honor or its pros- perity. x Among the exhibits a prominent place will doubtless be given to photographs of the un- rivaled scenery of the Yosemite Valley and its environs, as well as of the scarcely less wonder- ful canyons of the lower Sierra. But it is cer- tain that one of the exhibits will not bea comparative series of views of the floor of the valley, showing it as it was and in its various stages of deterioration through the disastrous course of improvements which have impaired its former beauty—a state of affairs which has come about in part innocently through a lack of knowledge of the proper method of procedure, and in part through & strongly intrenched 'system of tyranny and greed known as the Yosemite Ring. No traveler will consider this a matter of merely local interest. John Muir, the Alaska and Sierra explorer, has well called the Great Gorge the world’s Yosemite Valley, and its degradation in any respect is as much & mat- ter of general concern as would be the deface- ment of the pyramids. In January, 1890, the Century called general attention to the de- structive tendencies at work—a condition of affairs long notorious in the State. At intervals since we have noted,the con- was obtained by using a condenser in parallel | a5 d: | William Megginson for tinuance of the amateur system of manage- | ment. That the widespread criticisms in and | out of the State have had no deterrent effect is | evident from the observation made by Mr. Muir during last summer. In reading his re- marks it must be remembered that the valley itself, whieh technically is held by California in trust for public use, resort and recrea- tion inalienable for ail time, has since 1890 been surrounded by a National | park thirty-five times as large, which has been under milttary control; and that adjoining | this park on the south, extending along the | range, lies the Sierra forest reserve of over | 4,000,000 acres, which for lack of similar supervision is being desolated by sheep, by fire and by the ax, as were the environs of the | Yosemite before the establishment of the | National Park.” The Century then quotes the observations of Mr. Muir regarding the management, and recommending a recession of the trust. The | magazine, proceeding with its own comment, says: ‘‘Mr. Muir's suggestion of recession is one that should enlist the support of every public - spirited Californian. It is idle to waste time in considering the causes of the valley’s deterioration. The scandal of of the present situation is well known, The State accepted the trust from the Nation in 1864, butits servants have not observed the fundamentel condition of the cession. If the | suggestion of secession is thought humiliat- ing, it is not half so humiliating as the continuation of the scandal. And why should the - suggestion be humiliating? Continually in every State systems of admin- istration which do not work well are being changed. The commission system has not worlked well; whereas, side by side, the system | of National control has redeemed the National Park—the very source of the Yosemite water- falls. Why should not this treasure of nature have the same admirable protection?” One word in conclusion: If secession is to be accomplished at the next meeting of the Cali- fornia Legislature its advocates must organize and bestir themselves now. If Mr. Muir is not cordially supported in this effort to edeem the valley, and remove a blot upon the State, let not Californians any longer boast of public spirit or resent the charge of absorption in ma- terial progress. John F. BSheehan, secretary of the | Yosemite Commission, was seen last even- ing and asked what he thought of the roposition to surrender the trust to the Vation. He said: “Anything would be better than the nar- row and stingy policy which the State is now pursuing in a%proprintions for the care of the valley. Barely enough money is allowed to keev the bridges and trails in passable condition. It might be to tne ndvann(a)ga of the State to give up the trust. Under Government control liberal allow- ance of money might follow and much good be accomplished.” ‘When asked if the subject had been dis- cussed in the board, he said: “No, the Commissioners have not talked over the proposition, I saw the Governor yester- day, and he suggested that a full meeting of the board should be had before the an- nual meeting in the valley next June. We | have had no meetings this winter. Mr. Field, chairman of the executive commit- tee, has been laid up for some time with a broken leg, but he may be able to come to his office.”’ | | | | JOHN LEE'S LECTURE. Marriage Now and as It Will Be When the State Is So- clalized. The lecture delivered by John Lee un- der the auspices of the Liberty Branch of the San Francisco section of the Socialist party at 115 Turk street last evening was fairly well attended. 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