Myton Free Press | 1921-10-20 | Page 3 | How You Can be Transparent

How You Can Be Transparent. A liquid that renders flesh invisible or transparent has been invented. If a hand or arm is Immersed In this liquid its flesh will disappear almost entirely from view; the bones, however, how-ever, will be visible, as under X-rays. The mixture makes the flesh of your hand transparent because it has the same index of lignt refraction as the flesh. The light rays passing through the liquid are not bent, or refracted, when they pass through the flesh, though they are bent by the bones, which have a different index of refraction. refrac-tion. Different parts of the body hae dif ferent Indices or refraction ; any part can be made to disappear by submerging submerg-ing It In the proper liquid. But not all parts at once, so the magic cloak of Invisibility is still to be discovered.