Light visible and invisible : a series of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, at Christmas, 1896 (1897)
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916, Royal Institution of Great Britain · New York : Macmillan · leaf 316
vi RONTGEN LIGHT 275 to and fro along the wire. The oscillation dies out afterabout 1 \ periods. Now, suppose this oscillation to setup a transverse wave in surroundingspace. Though it consists of but1 \ ripples, they would be propagatedoutward just as trains of waves are.And if there were millions…
Light · X-rays
Internet Archive · UBC Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.