Radiography: Visions in to the Future

“November 8, 1895, in Wurzburg Germany, Whilem Conrad Roentgen discovered x-rays, initiating a medical and scientific revolution.” (Crenson **) Dozens of physicists had preformed the same experiment before but none had observed what Roentgen did that night while locked away in his laboratory. The experime

nt was simply to understand more about electricity and matter, but what he was not expecting to find was sheet of florescent paper glowing on the floor. Roentgen had accidentally discovered x-rays. X-rays, simply put, are negatively charged particles that are slowed as they pass near the nucleus or center of an atom. The images are produced by the reflections of the particles on to the florescent paper. Like in any new technology this new type of imaging quickly became popular with everyone. “By spring 1896, just a few months after Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen publicized his discovery of the mysterious rays, doctors around the world were peering at their patients’ insides.” (Crenson **) After Thomas Edison built the proper machine, called a fluoroscope, to produce and capture x-rays, it wasn’t too uncommon to have department stores offering the internal portraits to their customers. In 1886, x-ray’s where being used to take pictures of every body part and object imaginable by anyone who knew how to operate the machinery. X-ray’s where also used as evidence in many court cases. While x-rays are now mostly confined to medical and other institutional use, that

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