NEW TYPE OF MICROSCOPE
X-RAY UNIT BEING DEVELOPED NEW YORK, Dec. 3. The General Electric Company announced to-day that it had in the laboratory stage of deevlopment an X-ray microscope that could show the inside of things through which light could not pass, such as a bar of steel. An official of the company said that the instrument might compete with the electron microscope-, the most powerful magnifying instrument now in use.
The electron microscope used a beam of electrons rather than light to form an image of the materials under study. The X-ray microscope, did not need to be used in a ( vacuum. Because of that advantage it might be possible to examine living materials at a much higher magnification than ever.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 46, 5 December 1949, Page 3
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