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1. www.atlasobscura.com › articles › roentgen-xraysThe Existential Horror Created by the First X-Ray Images

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   Oct 5, 2017 · The image is the first radiograph, a photograph exposed by X-rays instead of light, ever taken. It was an image that sparked a craze for the invisible rays that could shine through the opaque and ...

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › X-rayX-ray - Wikipedia

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   Taking an X-ray image with early Crookes tube apparatus, late 1800s. The Crookes tube is visible in center. ... The first medical X-ray made in the United States was ...

4. www.pastmedicalhistory.co.uk › wilhelm-rontgen-andWilhelm Röntgen and the First X-Ray - Past Medical History

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   Apr 11, 2019 · The famous ‘X-ray photograph’ taken of Röntgen taken of his wife’s hand on 22nd November 1895 (Hand mit Ringen). The medical applications of X-rays. Röntgen quickly realised that these ‘X-rays’ could have medical applications and he sent an open letter to physicians he knew around Europe. A few weeks later on January 11 th, 1896 X ...

5. www.worldhistory.org › article › 2497Discovery of X-Rays - World History Encyclopedia

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   Jul 19, 2024 · Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), a German scientist, discovered X-rays or Röntgen rays in November 1895. He was awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics for this discovery in 1901. The thrill of the discovery became caught up in the late Victorian obsession with ghosts and photography. X-rays could 'photograph' the invisible, penetrating ...

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6. www.history.com › this-day-in-history › germanGerman scientist discovers X‑rays | November 8, 1895 - HISTORY

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   Nov 24, 2009 · This Day In History: 11/08/1895 - Scientist Discovers X-rays. On November 8, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant ...

7. www.the-scientist.com › the-first-x-ray-1895-42279The First X-ray, 1895 - The Scientist Magazine®

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   Jul 1, 2011 · Wilhelm Rontgen took this radiograph of his wife's left hand on December 22, 1895, shortly after his discovery of X-rays. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. At the end of the 19th century, while studying the effects of passing an electrical current through gases at low pressure, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays ...

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   When was the first X-ray image made?

   • The first X-ray image, “Hand mit Ringen” by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, 1895. Wellcome Library, London/CC BY 4.0 Those seven weeks that produced the image had started when Wilhelm noticed a strange light when he was fiddling with some Crookes tubes.

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   Who invented the X ray tube?

   • In 1913, Henry Moseley performed crystallography experiments with X-rays emanating from various metals and formulated Moseley's law which relates the frequency of the X-rays to the atomic number of the metal. The Coolidge X-ray tube was invented the same year by William D. Coolidge. It made possible the continuous emissions of X-rays.

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   How X rays are created?

   • When the electrons hit the target, X-rays are created by two different atomic processes: Characteristic X-ray emission (X-ray electroluminescence): If the electron has enough energy, it can knock an orbital electron out of the inner electron shell of the target atom.

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   Who was the first person to observe X-rays?

   • On November 8, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen  (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible.

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   When did X-rays become popular?

   • 'Bone portraits' became popular, and photographers opened studios for a public fascinated by otherworldly images of skeletons. One of the first medical uses of X-rays occurred in 1896 when John Francis Hall-Edwards (1858-1926), a British doctor, located a needle embedded in a colleague's hand.

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   Did Röntgen discover X-rays?

   • At the end of the 19th century, while studying the effects of passing an electrical current through gases at low pressure, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays—highly energetic electromagnetic radiation capable of penetrating most solid objects. His discovery transformed medicine almost overnight.

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9. artsandculture.google.com › story › x-ray-–-aX-ray – a fascinating discovery that changed the world

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   First x-ray image of a human hand (1895-12-20) by Wilhelm Conrad RöntgenGerman Röntgen Museum He would use photography to document his findings. Two days before Christmas in 1895, he took an X-ray of the hand of his wife, Anna Bertha.