Word: ethers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hypnotic drugs which induce sleep are often confused with the narcotics which dull pain. Bromides, sulphonal, veronal are hypnotics. Insomniacs take them habitually. Other habit-forming drugs are ether, alcohol, chloroform, hashish (the drug of inspired assassins) and mandrake,* sleepy syrup that comes from a forked root...
...American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Consulting Engineer Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson of the General Electric Co. and the Radio Corporation of America, described his progress in the projection of motion pictures by radio. A central difficulty, the translation of optical images into electric current capable of impelling bands of ether waves, had already been surmounted by experimenters with the photoelectric cell and amplifier, used in motionless television and telephotography. Dr. Alexanderson's feat was to utilize a beam of light (which in motionless telephotography has from 2 to 20 minutes to trace and transmit the desired light-pattern...
...late Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow (1850-1926) of Boston established the medal eleven years ago in memory of his father, Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818-90), first to use ether as a regular preoperative procedure. This was in 1850. The Bigelow Medal has heretofore been given only to Dr. William James Mayo, in 1921, and to Dr. William Williams Keen of Philadelphia...
Effects. Hurtling into a crowded world of molecules, the stream of electrons (cathode rays) bombarded whatever they met so violently that the electrons of that world were knocked abruptly out of their orderly orbits around protons (positive atomic nuclei). Instantly, X-rays were set up in the local ether. As the dislocated electrons struggled back to their original positions they made another kind of vibration, weaker than X-rays and visible as bright luminosities. Thus, as soon as the 350,000 volts were switched on, a purple ball appeared at and enveloped the "window" end of the tube, caused...
...identical in nature with the beta rays of radium, computations were made showing that Dr. Coolidge had invented the equivalent of a ton of radium (2,000 times the world's present supply), worth a hundred billion dollars. But these computations were misleading. It is the gamma rays (ether vibrations) of radium that are most potent and healing. Radium's beta rays (streams of electrons) are screened off during most applications of radium to diseased tissue; their effect is superficial, while gamma rays penetrate deeply, cause more violent atomic changes...