Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-02-16 | Page 7 | New Cathode Ray Tube Operating on 900,000 Volts is Perfected

New N w Cathode Ray Tube Operating On Volts Is Perfected NEW YORK Feb 16 15 AP AP The The possibility of construction of ap apparatus apparatus ap ap- which will produce the fie beta bet and gamma rays ray of radium is i. held forth by Dr W. W D D D. Coolidge assistant director of the research laboratory of the General Genral Electric company in announcing development development develop develop- ment of a new superpower cathode ray tube tubo operating on volts The previous limit of power had been volts volta announcement was made at ata ata a a. meeting of ot the American Institute InU tute cute of l Electrical engineers where Dr Coolidge received receded the Edison medal for tor hi his hi contributions contribution to Incandescent incandescent In In- I I candescent lighting and the X FASTEST SPEED I The new tube Is ia a a. three three-In three ne ne arrangement of the Q MH volt 0 volt cathode ray tube A cuaco ar arrangement arrangement at ar- expels Expel l electrons n. n At nt the tho I rate of ot 17 1000 miles mile a H second which 1 is III the fastest man made made mado I p speed d ever at attained 1 It is I. times faster taster than th the aped of oC a bullet shot hot from Irom a standard army I rifle rICh This Thin open opens a vista of or alluring scientific possibilities said mild Dr I Coolidge in explaining the Aho sectional principle upon which the then new n nl w tube tubo ia Is built hullt It has hili tantalized i us UI for lor rea years ear to think that we couldn't pro produce in fn the laboratory I just sas a as high bleb speed electrons electron a IU as the I I highest velocity beta rays ray of ot radium ra- ra ra radium and jut just as a. penetrating radiation radia redla- tion tiona a as aa the shortest wave length gamma ray rays from radium AccordIne AccordIng Accord- Accord leg Ing to tu Sir Ernest Ernut Rutherford rd we n need only a n. little more than twice the voIla voltage which we have ban already employed to produce X X-ra X ray X-ray raya a as penetrating a as the most mOlt penetrating gamma rays ray from radium and about volta volts to produce a as high speed as 8 beta Mia ray rays EXPERIMENTS START The volt tube which Dr Coolidge demonstrated in 1924 In produced produced pro pro- enormous streams of high JIh speed peed electrons electron which changed I. I into solids caused many mineral min miD eral t to td glow with phosphorescence for tor hours and caused pe profound o found al alterations at- at In living cells The Th ex experiment OX- OX with the new tube have just juat started Cheater Moore and J J. J If Il Dempster Demp Demp- Dempster mp- mp t ster aided him In hi his dev development nt of or the tu tube Dr Coolidge said mid John Carty vice president pre of the American Arne Telephone and Tel Telegraph ph company received the JohnS John Fritz medal for tor achievements achievement in JQ telephone tele tele- phone engineering n