Of current interest: Cadmium sulphide crystal used in X-Ray inspection of industrial products

A revolutionary discovery that promises to make possible for the first time the highspeed, automatic X-ray inspection of thousands of industrial products was announced recendy by the General Electric X-Ray Corporation, Milwaukee, Wis. The purpose of inspecting these products is to increase their soundness and safety, and in general to improve quality and help develop better production processes. The new inspection system may also be used to improve the performance of medical diagnostic and therapeutic X-ray apparatus.