| | X-rays: The Unknown Glimmer |
 | | Following a suggestion by Max von Laue (1879-1960) in 1912, the father and son team, Sir William Henry Bragg (1862-1942) and Sir William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), perfected the technique of measuring wavelength of X-rays using a crystal (say Nacl) as a diffraction grating. |
 | | At the low pressures Crookes produced, the Geissler discharge disappeared and as the voltage was increased a new type of visible discharge appeared: a beam moving in straight lines from the cathode. |
 | | Lenard saw intense, easily visible fluorescence of the ketone screens and intense flening of photographic plates, but "only for a distance in air of a few centimeters". |
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