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First medical X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen of his wife’s hand. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered the scientific mechanisms behind what would eventually become the X-ray back in 1895, successfully imaging the bones of his wife’s hand, but it wasn’t until Thomas Edison and Clarence Dally began tinkering that a reliable X-ray machine was first built. They’dContinue reading “From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (x-ray)”