| Show photographing I 1 HE BRAIN EDISON HAS NOT YET MADE MA DE A SUCCESS today another attempt will bo be made aade sow how experiments ars are conducted no earza to the poison orange N J feb 10 thomas A A edison was hard at work all day in hid big laboratory labora tofy in west orange preparing for or ills hill experiment of photographing photograph in 9 the human brain with tho the aid of the newly discovered ray with will the iho aid ot of mercury pumps ho he labored assiduously on crookes Crook cs tubes ot of ills own manufacture to the mouth of each tubo tube a long lone glass tube was mas attached arid and through this by means of a L connecting I 1 tube in tire the side the mercury was mas run and the air in the Cro crookes cikos tut maa as gradually exhausted by the nic mercury surrounded by a score or r more n 0 r 0 of f reporters and other visitors Ni u mr r L adlaon d I 1 s a n sat for hours matching tile the progress or of the work mork and lie he displayed a wonderful amount of patience when u after after fter repealed trials tile the desired re bult waa mas not obtained again and agal again 11 the efforts were repeated arid and ii C edison explained to tile the reporters that he waa aa tryllis tor eve whether the rays were longitudinal etherly vibration going straight out into space or local magnetic waves circulating from one electrode to tho the other jn in the tube through the air in tho the immediate locality being purely ibcal in influence lie ile fias aas dt de airous of anding the degree of vacuum in a tube which chich would give the best effort of rays in another experiment today he be caused the rays to pass through a piece of steel half an inch thick lie ile also found that the mysterious rays raya were mere capable of penetrating a bit of cardboard el a piece of c celluloid ellul old and a half inch strip of steel combined leaving the plate uniformly blade black had the th rays not penetrated the steel the plate would naturally hive been black in rho iho place where the steel was wai not interposed ile he secured similar results so several times with equal precision in regard to his proposed attempt at photographing THE DR benain AIN the representative of at tile the ass associated 0 C press asked mr lr edison it ther thero 0 N would be any ally danger of tire the subjects su biering from any physical I 1 injury front from the rays which would ca necessarily bo be forced through his head as it had been suggested that a spark a of t electricity from the tuli might cause some injury to the nervous system sir mr edison replied 1 ailed no the subject would be in ill no darger danger whatever as there Is no arr am arago in the rays in tile the tube and it Is ahe the amperage that works the harm tomorrow lie he will try to photograph sections of tile tho head only by placing a fill emall celluloid 1 l film which Is tile the plate in celluloid covers coners in the mouth of tile the subject eulth tire the plate facing the palate the rays from tile hie fluorescent bulb electrode will then be directed so im aa to penetrate tire hie skull and strike tile the plate at the desired anglo angle another plate similarly in celluloid covers will bo be placed in tile the subjects subject mouth facing the right or left side of the head and the rays w m ill be placed accordingly tills this in mr edison Edi sons 9 opinion I 1 should warrant it a successful atille neg negative as aa tho rays raya would only have to pass through one thickness ot of the skull and then if the attempt la is satin factory he will mill try to photograph the entire head with tho the plate resting at the back and the rays penot penetrating rating the face and also the subject lying on his bide aide to have tile the ray penetrate from the right or left with the plate on tile tho opposite side |
