X RAY TREATMENT
CONSTRUCTION OF MILLION VOLT TUBE. EQUAL TO 90,000,000 DOLLARS WORTH OF RADIUM. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, January 3. The General Electric Company has announced the construction of a mil-lion-volt X-Ray tube, which will be invaluable in the treatment of cancer and will also have extraordinary industrial uses.
The apparatus is based on the discovery of a new electrical principle and is equal to 90,000,000 dollars worth of radium. It is portable enough to be carried in a lorry. The super-powerful X-Ray can “see" through steel and concrete.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1939, Page 6
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91X RAY TREATMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1939, Page 6
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