Something New In Microscopes
Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 3. The General Electric Company announced today that it had in the laboratory stage of development, an X-ray microscope that could see the inside of things through which light could not pass, such as a bar of steel. An official said the instrument might compete with the electron microscope, the most powerful magnifying instrument npw in use. The electron microscope uses a beam of electrons rather than light to form the image of the materials under study. The X-ray microscope, unlike the electron microscope, did not need to be used in a vacuum- Because fo aahtdtm pak dT,.G- u . .B of that advantagre it might be post sible to examine living materials at much higher magnification than ever.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 December 1949, Page 5
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