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Scan from The English Mechanic- 1897 drawing of an invention - using X-Rays to scan luggage.

"The ways of the smuggler are, it appears, actually being revealed to some extent by the aid of the Roentgen rays in France, an apparatus devised by M. Gaston Seguy being utilized for the purpose. This is an adaptation of the fluorescent screen in the form of an opera-glass, the lenses being replaced by discs coated with uranium salts, and it has been called ' La Lorgnette Humaine.' The results of a demonstration at the Bercy Customs Warehouse, which was witnessed by two members of the Academy of Sciences and other notabilities, are thus summarized by the Paris correspondent of the Daily News : ' A case labeled china was first examined. The opera glass showed it contained an oval dish. Another parcel, invoiced as boots, revealed a pair of ladies' boots, but along with them were two round balls. ' Open,' ordered M. Pallain. The two balls were found to be apricots sent from Algeria. A box returned as ' samples ' aroused the suspicion of M. Pallain, who remarked that this word was often a euphemism for tobacco. The opera glass was directed upon it, when three tin boxes were seen, each of which contained a hundred Egyptian cigarettes. Two boxes of English matches were packed up with them. These experiments were continued for an hour, and excited great enthusiasm.' The M. Pallain referred to above is the Director-General of Customs, and the packages examined appear to have been sent by parcel post. It is quite evident that the authorities will have plenty of work on their hands if they intend to examine all such parcels by radiographic methods, and delay in delivery, it may be presumed, is regarded in Paris as of quite secondary importance." (Pharm. Journ., Vol. V., Fourth Series, page 32. ) "
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