Thanks to years of research and development by many scientists and engineers, including Nikola Tesla, the X-ray machine was formally displayed by HL Smith on January 18, 1896. Prior to this exhibition ...

Jan. 5, 1896: An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of a new type of radiation, which becomes known as an X-ray ...

On the night of November 8, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen finished his supper and went to his laboratory to conduct some routine experiments. Roentgen had no way of knowing that ...

An X-ray of a gunshot victim in Kyauk Taw, Myanmar. Photo by Kaung Htet/Getty Images. In a regular column on the PBS NewsHour website, Dr. Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of ...

Object Details discovered x-rays Roentgen, W. C. maker Roentgen, W. C. Description This is one of the first x-ray tubes used by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845-1923), who discovered this new ...

Wilhelm Roentgen isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, or discover the X-ray, while toiling in his lab this day. But discover the X-ray is exactly what he does.