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Roentgen and the X-Ray (right)
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The invention of the x-ray was a creation like no other. The x-ray changed history, not just medical care. In November of 1895, Professer Whilhelm Conrad Röentgen was experimenting with a variety of materials to see what they would do. He discovered that a fluorescent screen showed a faint glow when placed near a vacuum tube which was controlled by a high-voltage induction coil. Röentgen passed his hand through the beam. His hand was perfectly unharmed, but the fluorescent screen showed the bones inside his hand. Soon after Röentgen discovered this unbelievable machine, he decided to give it a name. The "X-Ray." Why? X=unknown.
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Roentgen's wife's skeletal hand.
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A few days later after Professer Röentgen invented the x-ray, he took a photo of his wife's hand through the x-ray. The bones only showed once again, and the photo was proof to the people of his discovery of medical radiology. Even though the discovery of medical radiology was what fascinated Röentgen, the picture of the boned hand was what intrigued the general public. In 1896, the world got the news of the invention of the x-ray. Other researchers studied what the x-ray will do if they tried to use a different type of tube (rather than the vacuum tube) or tried to change the design of it. Later in 1901, Whilhelm Conrad Röentgen earned a first Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the x-ray.
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