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 ...

On January 12, 1896, three students at Davidson College experimented with x-rays. On January 6, 1896, the Associated Press announced that German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered a new ...

An employee of the German Roentgen Museum holds an X-ray image of his hand, photographed by Wilhelm Roentgen, over a light box. The first X-ray images ever taken are now part of the Memory of the ...