All Things Vintage: X-Ray Discovery #AprilA2Z
Good-morning, kittens and dawgs! The end of the #AprilA2Z challenge is drawing near. Thank you for coming back for my newest installment of All Things Vintage!
The first X-ray is a 19th century invention by a German scientist in 1895. Prior to this discovery, diagnosing broken bones or tumors was pretty much guess-work on the physician’s part. A Professor at Wuerzberg University in Germany by the name of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen observed while working with a cathode-ray tube a fluorescent glow of crystals on a table near the tube, which consisted of a glass bulb with enclosed positive and negative electrodes and no air, but when high voltage was used the tube emitted a fluorescent glow. He protected the tube with heavy black paper and found a green colored fluorescent light triggered due to an unspecified (the article didn’t say) material within a few feet from the tube. Later the same year, Roentgen took the first x-ray image of his wife’s hand.
You may want to check out Craziest X-ray: How did that get in there?! for some very interesting x-ray images. I will heed a word of warning to the weak of heart, while these pictures aren’t graphic (full living color), they are a bit disturbing and may wig you out a bit. It did me!
When was the last time you had a x-ray and what was the purpose of it?
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9 Comments
Birgit
Ok the toy story one is just so wrong. I bet the wings opened after Buzz went to infinity and beyond. amazing how many nails ended up in people’s skulls
Birgit
It is cool how he found out about the X-Ray. I had X rays done on my ankle because my foot did a 90 slam on the pavement and chipped a piece off the ankle bone that juts out. I never broke or fractured anything just the piece but I had to wear a big boot for 6 weeks and my foot was swollen for over 6 months. Due to my Ehlers-Danlos it’s hard to brake a bone but I often sprain stuff and it takes a long time to heal.
Lisa
X-rays & pinup girls are a combination I never thought to see!
The only x-ray I’ve had (other than regular dental ones) was on my hand last July – it was not my shining moment but I attempted to clear the clipping shoot on the lawn mower – while it was running! Besides the inevitable sliced nail, I also fractured my fingertip! Learned my lesson the hard way!
Lisa at Tales from the Love Shaque
Myke Todd
This was interesting and informative. I had not idea this process has been going on so long.
Okay, I will admit, I was looking for something on Superman’s X-Ray vision. 😉
Janie Junebug
I think the only x-rays I’ve ever had are once a year at the dentist’s office. When I broke my back, I had an MRI. I read that when x-ray machines were new, the medical staff thought they were fun, so they took repeated x-rays of each other. They didn’t know it could lead to cancer!
Love,
Janie
Rorybore
My daughter had dental x-rays, and I was amazed at how detailed they have become since I last had one myself. For me, the details you can now have with ultrasound – 3D baby pics!!! – is just amazing. I haven’t had to have xrays myself since my 20s when I injured my knee, but I am so grateful for these talented medical professionals and it is nice to know that we have access to this technology should we ever need it.
Jeffrey Scott
I’m still fascinated by how X-Rays work. The last scan I had was this past weekend. I had a few X rays in fact, stepping through various airport security check points. They never did find the bubble gum I was smuggling back home from New York. LOL
Mary B
My last x-ray was in Dec 2014, routine chest x-ray as requested for pre-op to remove cancer and all of my reproductive organs. Fun times. I didn’t even have to smile for the picture 😉
Mary
#AtoZChallenge X is for X-Tina
Thomas Anderson
Hi, dear Cathy!
I’m happy to see you worked in another Gil Elvgren pin-up for your X-Ray topic. 🙂 Remember Ray Milland in the 1963 sci-fi/horror movie X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes? I saw it in the theater the year it was released.
X-Rays are magic to me. I looked at some of the shocking images in that gallery and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I hope those patients with spikes through their heads had lots of Anacin and Bufferin on hand! 🙂
When Mrs. Shady and I moved to another city recently I needed to change doctors and routine X-Rays were ordered upon my initial visit.
Thank you, dear friend Cathy!