DETECTIVE X-RAYS

Southland Times, Issue 18859, 26 June 1920, Page 7

DETECTIVE X-RAYS

I HIDDEN FORMS IN OLD MASTERS. ; LONDON, May 0. j Major G, W. ('. Kaye had some wonder--1 fill tilings to tell !;;- audience at the Roy -,! In.-t'tu! <in on recent :;d\ante., on e.-i :tv work, hj eat tire-: iiinuen for cent tires in ;jic ipain'nivs of id; master.- have now hvn : . (ii; i lived by the raw-. The lecturer . ho.'.vii ! two loll) centum pa Hires by Hur di pm,. iters, one reptr.-cniii'.., the .vladum;:;. an i j another the (ru •.•i.;xi;,n. In the former tic j Madonna api ear-.-ti to He looking a! some | thing which wa.- non-t xistcnl on the cun', tv j but a radiograph cxanidmlio”. prove,! icm i tite missing something was it child which a J former owner of the picture had evidently i disapproved and had painted ( ul, in t.;e i second picture a ha’;.’ iu an atiita-.r if | prayer was di-vo . eicd to 'nave been painted | over whist wa.- it: the original the figure r.i a j-oiaii in monkish rath. 1 Major Knyc said that by the application ! of recent discoveries it is possible to pen: I Irate three incites of steel, six inches of ali i minium alloy, end twelve 'inches or more ) of wood, by the rays, hut onf-eighth of an I inch oi ic ti is sufficient p.rot ?ction again ! j those awful effects v.h’f-h the pioneers in their employment suffered owing to ignorance of the risk they ran. The eppheelion of the X-rays was of immense service in the examination of met vis and r.iclii wot k ---in the defection of had material and bad workmanship which, had they gone u:icovi.ren, wra.tl.i have meant immediate divaster and grave, t consequent effect:,. IF' exhibited a number of striking pictures showing had metal end ond workmanship in the mo.-t unmistakable way. A cheap American watch Mood fully revealed in all its smallest parts; Ru- conical end of the petrol Rink of an acrophuic was shown to have hern made With rivet? having no heads on the inside; a faked-up aeroplane axle which had been re-examined after rejetion led to the turning down of the who!? lot ; and in one case in woodwork it was discovered that of the two vitally important, bolts which should have crossed each other at right angles one had a large pieccAfiled out to let the other cross. Too many pioneer gave their lives to the science because of their ignorance, but now that we knew more about it there ought to he no mot, .such martyrs..