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The first medical X-ray made in the United States was obtained using a discharge tube of Puluj's design. In January 1896, on reading of Röntgen's discovery, Frank Austin of Dartmouth College tested all of the discharge tubes in the physics laboratory and found that only the Puluj tube produced X-rays.
Radiology began to be practiced at Rinehart Hospital in 1897. Their first X-ray machine used a German induction coil with mechanical interrupter and a small X-ray tube similar to that used by Röntgen. This device sputtered away in the front office during Paul Hodges' early childhood.
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...
An X-ray machine is a device that uses X-rays for a variety of applications including medicine, X-ray fluorescence, electronic assembly inspection, and measurement of material thickness in manufacturing operations.
Gustav Bucky invented the first x-ray grid. He is still the namesake for the Bucky factor which is a measure of the efficiency of a grid as it is the ratio of x-rays that are stopped in the grid to those that pass through the grid.
In 1896, just a year after Röntgen‘s discovery, a Chicago doctor named Emil Grubbé used X-rays to treat a patient with breast cancer. This marked the beginning of radiation therapy, which would become a cornerstone of cancer treatment in the 20th century.
The technology behind the X-ray machine, a foundation of modern medicine, was “accidentally” discovered nearly 120 years ago this week on November 8, 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
Crookes tubes, glass tubes with a vacuum inside, were a popular scientific apparatus in the late 1800s. Researchers ran electricity through attached cathodes and anodes to create a stream of...
The scientific and medical communities will forever be indebted to an accidental discovery made by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895. Röntgen originally set out to research the electrical charges or cathode rays created in vacuum tubes known as Crookes tubes.
A chance finding in 1895 by a scientist named Wilhelm Röntgen led to the discovery of the x-ray, one of the most common investigations used in medicine.