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[[Image:Side_Tube.JPG|thumb|A gas x-ray tube with a side tube for regenerating gas. "The regeneration mechanism ''D'' was activated when the gas pressure in the tube became so low that a spark jumped between ''E'' and ''F''" (Arns, 862).]] | [[Image:Side_Tube.JPG|thumb|A gas x-ray tube with a side tube for regenerating gas. "The regeneration mechanism ''D'' was activated when the gas pressure in the tube became so low that a spark jumped between ''E'' and ''F''" (Arns, 862).]] |
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Maxwell's Demon
In addition to its "temperamental" ability to represent clear images, the gas tube easily ran out of gas.
References
Arns, Robert G. The High-Vacuum X-Ray Tube: Technological Change in Social Context. Technology and Culture vol. 38, no. 4: 852-890.
Bleich, Alan R. 1960. The Story of X-Rays from Röntgen to Isotopes. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
Golan, Tal. 2004. The Emergence of the Silent Witness: The Legal and Medical Reception of X-rays in the USA. Social Studies of Science vol. 34, no. 4: 469-499.
Lentle, Brian. 2000. X-rays and technology as metaphor. Canadian Medical Association Journal 162 (4): 512-514.
Pasveer, Bernike. 1989. Knowledge of shadows: the introduction of X-ray images in medicine. Sociology of Health & Illness 11(4): 360-383.
"Remarks Made at the Demonstration of the Rontgen Ray, at Stated Meeting, February 21, 1896." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 35 (150): 17-36.