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!

Pinup girl x-ray

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.

The disk on Roentgen's wife's hand is her wedding ring. This Professor's discovery of X-ray technology earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics.
The disk on Roentgen’s wife’s hand is her wedding ring. This Professor’s discovery of X-ray technology earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics.

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?

Applauds and special thanks to the incredible A2Z Team for hosting all the April fun!

Arlee Bird @ Tossing it Out
Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh
Heather M. Gardner
Jeremy @ Hollywood Nuts
AJ Lauer
Pam @ An Unconventional Librarian
Damyanti Biswas @ Daily Write
Zalka Csenge Virág @ The Multicolored Diary
Joy Campbell @ The Character Depot
John Holton @The Sound of One Hand Typing

Now, I invite you to hop with me in checking out some of the amazing A2Zers playing along this year and I hope you’ll come back tomorrow for more All Things Vintage!

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