You can see through the story: the first patients on the X-ray

November 8, 1895 is considered the day of the discovery of X-rays by professor and physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. However, few people think about the fact that the X-ray was not invented for scientific or medical purposes.

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen once stayed up late at work in the laboratory of the Physics Institute of the University of Würzburg and discovered X-rays. The first image that came out after the radiation was the hand of the wife of Roentgen Anna Bertha Ludwig. When the properties of X-rays were thought to be used in medicine, patients attacked hospitals to reveal all their sores, despite the fact that at first X-rays were quite dangerous. X-radiation collided with another popular invention of the late XIX century — photography. And that's what came out of it.

Source: Time

Austria, 1910.

Chest X-ray, Paris, 1914.

One of the most advanced, but strange devices at the X-ray Institute. A modern car that "looks through". Frankfurt, Germany, 1929.

A man and a woman demonstrate medical equipment at the X-ray exhibition, 1928.

Movie star Judith Allen with a picture of her back, 1930.

Demonstration of the latest X-ray machine, London, 1932.

The newest X-ray machine operated by a radiologist in an old-style protective suit. X-ray exhibition, Westminster, 1934.

In October 1937, in Rio de Janeiro, physics professor Moraes De Abre invented an X-ray to recognize lung diseases.

X-ray technician in the U.S. Medical Service during World War II, 1941-1945.

Doctors use an X-ray machine to insert a venous catheter into a patient's heart, 1947.

A little girl gets a chest X-ray at a clinic in Chelsea, 1949.

X-ray machine at the Dental Association Exhibition, California, 1953.

A patient with hiccups is X-rayed, New York, 1955.

Rotating X-ray machine that takes a panoramic picture of teeth, 1960.