Article April 6, 1899 Issue

A Roentgen Ray Discovery

From the New York Herald we cull the following regarding the recent invention of Dr. Kolle:—

Think of one man being able to print seven hundred and fifty thousand copies of a newspaper in a single working day of eight hours. Startling, isn't it? Yet, if the calculations of Dr. Frederick Strange Kolle are correct, this is but a moderate estimate of what may be done by a new X ray process. But manufacturers of printing presses need not prepare to go out of business just yet, for it will probably be many a year before Dr. Kolle's discovery is brought to practical perfection.

When, scarcely more than two years ago, the X ray was discovered by Prof. Roentgen, an astonished world said, "Surely this is the limit." Yet, at that time not half the possibilities of that marvellous spark were conceived, even by scientists. Investigation and experiment are almost daily revealing new wonders. The latest discovery of the power of the X ray has been only recently made. Dr. Kolle is a young man, who has devoted most of his time for the last two years to studying Prof. Roentgen's spark.

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