Show RAYS OF LIGHT FROM THE HUMAI B ady lower animals see the light that is ible to our eyes new york may 18 of light emanating from the human body and visible to the eyes of some of the lower animals form the interesting scientific discovery announced as having been made by accident by professor A W goodspeed of the randal morgan laboratory of physics of the university of pennsylvania divested of its technical terms the discovery of prof goodspeed means that the rays of light shed from a living human body may have sufficient intensity although invisible to the human ayo to produce a picture on a plate properly sensitized and in a room pitch dark the discovery was made while xray X ray photographs were being taken while an iron tripod stand with a ring shaped top as a support for a photographic plate was being used it was observed that the plate when edwed to the was affected by ah e iron ring beloff puzzled at this seeming departure from the rulea the operator attempted to discover the cause in go doing one of his assistants placed his hand below the the result was an imperfect radiogram of the bones of the human land like those obtained from the roentgen rays when experimentation in that line was in ita first stages it was so entirely new that prof goodspeed perplexed he tried again and again every time a human hand was placed within the proper focus tho same amazing phenomena followed the experiments were continued for three months and the conclusion of prof goodspeed was not announced until he had satisfied himself beyond all question of tha correctness of his results |