Show THE lichti LIGHTNING BUG lie I 1 14 nn an x arn na Pro producer of the ali perfect I 1 kind anol the lightning bus bup is an in xray X ray producer do icer of the most lind kind this fact f act has been established by prof 11 II imaoka who alto occupies tile the chair of physics of the hie Un hersity of koto japan prof ilura oka was iid induced to perform ili his a c experiment ich with fireflies or oi 1 lightning I i li t i i 1 n g bags as the are arc popularly I 1 v I 1 known i i 0 1 v ii i in this country b liy tin the reit lilar nii loible number of these theal ill insects sects that infest the night air air of koep hiring the month of june croal t the lle nery cry first lir so suspected abat there cinq sonio ronnee connee liou bf IN bev the light of 01 the firefly annl the xray X ray and it N as 14 m with ith a ie e to pro broin AlnEr this connection that aw h undertook the the experiment va na performed bv klicin cin about I a thousand of tile the insects ii ip a small flat bov in ili AN aich they mere erp ni fined under 1 a I nc lie ninah of batup file box contained it a photographic dry pill in chich were Nvere pate plate ol of lai ious ions metals inel udini opper copper alu iii iiii zinc inc nil and brass ml of alie metal plates nere ere of the same thickness sheets of cardboard both entire and in with will clossen cut in ili them A v ore ere placed Il alongside onside of many of th e plates all of were wrapped in ili several of black paper and left in the lox box A v ith the flies tor for trio nights ili a z dark room the alie plates m bere iere ere I 1 ier emm feriod iod ed and tho the insects that had sunned alp tl involuntary ordeal in the catisi fr cr e ficici ten were berc allowed ilo ed to pro 0 O flea on elimination it was found that acry otic one of ef the photographic rapine pill plates tea had un bindt I 1 erg agop 0 ct the he u inin I 1 chemical cli chancre aniZe shen kiich tell plates ar I 1 expose 1 tp ahe tile light lif flit they vere ill all 1 lath 1 ow I 1 in wr lim grec and till this via was true rot not orv of those that had baci been subjected to th the e rays ray of if light eraitt emitted ed by the fireflies directly but bill in the case of those which had beet been protected pr elected b plates of hardboard ard board and metal arom the result of the experiment Murao noka kii deduced the folloN illg facts 1 the light emitted by the firefly before it passes through any an substances such a ao metal cardboard or mood is lilio ime an ordinary liblit and i i plainly li isible sible 2 after it passes tl t one or more of these et substances tbt ances it is rio no longer to the nal naked c I 1 e ey yo but is capable or of affecting t the ile chemical coating of photographic dry plates in this respect act acting aug exact exactly ly lile the xray di elered by prof I 1 bentgen 3 the iglic admits of ic ie and re fi action N Y journal |