Wilhelm Roentgen: x-rays

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  • "Electricity"

    Sir William Gibert gives name of "electricity" to the same phenomenon found in lighting in his book De Magnete.

  • Natural Vacuum

    Evangelista Torricelli discovers natural vacuum above a column of mercury in a glass tube that is induced by gravity.

  • "Electrical Machine"

    Otto von Guericke builds "electrucal machine" to generate sparks early 1700s, Francis Haukesbee may have been first person to prodice x ray when he observes a glow discharge during experiment with a vacuum tube.

  • May have produced x rays...

    Abbe Jean Nollet may have produced x rays while experimenting with an electrical egg.

  • First electric battery

    Alessandro Volta builds first electric battery

  • Michael Faraday notes...

    Michael Faraday notes that interior of a glass tube emptied of air glows when electrivity is discharged between electrodes mounted at each end of the tube.

  • Wilhelm Rontgen Birth

    Was born at Lennep in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany, as the only child of a merchant in, and manufacturer of, cloth. His mother was Charlotte Constanze Frowein of Amsterdam, a member of an old Lennep family which had settled in Amsterdam.

  • Entered in to the University of Utrecht

    To study physics

  • Discobers cathode rays

    Johann Wilhlem Hittorf

  • Graduated with Ph D. from the University of Zurich

    Was appointed assistant to Kundt and went with him to Würzburg in the same year, and three years later to Strasbourg.

  • Crookes Tube

    Sir William Crookes invents the Crookes Tube.

  • Heinrich Hertz

  • Discovers that carhode rays can...

  • Experimenting with cathode rays

    was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895 when he noticed that his tubes could make a screen glow even when there was something in the way He had discovered.

  • Discovered X-rays

    Discovered X-rays
    The German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen made one of the most important medical discoveries of the modern age- radiographic imaging of the body. (From handout)

  • Discover radioactivity

  • Proves the ecistence of electrons

  • Founding of American Roentgen Society

  • Coolidge Tube

  • Implements first use of systematic x rays testing

  • Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Death

    Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Death
    Die in Munich, Germany.

  • Stone monument created

  • Ultrasound

  • MRI

  • Diagnostic x rays systems

  • First MRI imaging of human brain takes place

  • Introduction of digital x ray