Comments on: X-Ray Solves Secret of Life

By: jayessell

jayessell — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:59:52 +0000

Twyla…. I can e-mail that old radio show I mentioned in #4.

Dang! It’s 11mb! I’ll see what I can do.
Does Googlemail allow 11mb attachments?

By: Twyla

Twyla — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:28:13 +0000

WOW! Thanks so much for scanning this, I’m doing a research project on X-rays, and this is just the kind of article I needed.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:11:44 +0000

Jayssell: That’s very cool, I’ll have to listen to the whole thing when I get a chance. And of course, please call me Charlie. Only Jinx calls me webmaster.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:31:08 +0000

No mention of the early researchers being sickened by exposure to the “miracle rays”.

Webmaster: (or may I call you Charles?)

http://www.otrcat.com/sciencemagazineoftheair.htm

“Science Magazine of the Air” / Episode 069 aka ‘Invisible Eye’.
A docudrama about the discovery and development of the X-Ray.

On the same disk, a late 1940s discussion of the peacetime applications of Atomic Energy!

By: jinxdefenestrated

jinxdefenestrated — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:03:39 +0000

look here is a picture from the same photo set 6 years earlier

http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....alth-show/

By: Boing Boing

Boing Boing — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:04:31 +0000

X-Ray as exciting technology: 1939…

Dot-com exuberance from June, 1939: Mechanix Illustrated’s ecstatic article, “X-Ray Solves the Secret of Life!” The X-ray is more than the tool of the surgeon. It is a force in the change of civilization. So great a force is it in changing of sex, t…

By: Blurgle

Blurgle — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:07:08 +0000

The broken link in their thinking is that nobody knew back then that mutations caused cancer. When they thought of mutations, they probably thought of mutating cells so they’d be more likely to resist cancer.