HEATLESS LIGHT
A private demonstration. was recently given in'Baris of a form of heatless light which has been discovered after fifteen years’ research by a • French ■ ; scientist named Dussaud. * ,
Tlio eminent French scientist, Dr. Edouard Branly,-one of the pioneers of wireless telegraphy, is;, to make some results of Dussaiui’s discoveries public very shortly in a con munication to the Academy of Science, but not in full detail, as 1 lie most important of them are being reserved for consideration by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Marine, with a view to the demands of national defence.
'Enough' was made known at the private demonstration, however," to show that the new discoveries are intensely interesting. For instance, specimens of fruit and flowers, a butter-fly’s wing, and a water-colour painting, were placed in turn under the bulb containing the heatleas light and reflected on a sci’een. They appeared on the screen in all them brilliant colouring in ordinary daylight. Th new light can also be used in same measure to replace X-rays. Opaque objects placed in a container become so transparent, when exposed td heatless light- that their internal, conditions - can be plainly seep. £ '‘.y
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 4 October 1924, Page 5
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195HEATLESS LIGHT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 4 October 1924, Page 5
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