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Invented by a german physicist named Wilhem Conrad Rontgen
He discovered x-rays at the University of Würzburg while experimenting with electron beams in a gas discharge tube. He noticed that a fluorescent screen in his laboratory began to glow when the tube was turned on. -
The material changed
Thomas Edison nvestigated materials' ability to fluoresce when exposed to X-rays, and found that calcium tungstate was the most effective substance. Around March 1896, the fluoroscope he developed became the standard for medical X-ray examinations. -
First X-Ray used in the U.S
The first medical X-ray made in the United States was obtained using a discharge tube of Pulyui's design. In January 1896, on reading of Röntgen's discovery, Frank Austin of Dartmouth College tested all of the discharge tubes in the physics laboratory and found that only the Pulyui tube produced X-rays. This was a result of Pulyui's inclusion of an oblique "target" of mica, used for holding samples of fluorescent material, within the tube. -
First Clinical use
The first use of X-rays under clinical conditions was by John Hall-Edwards in Birmingham, England on 11 January 1896, when he radiographed a needle stuck in the hand of an associate. -
First Use in surgery
On 14 February 1896 Hall-Edwards was also the first to use X-rays in a surgical operation. -
Discovery of the risks
It was found that using the X-ray machine had some risks such as burns, loss of hair, swelling, and blistering. -
Present day
The X-Ray machine has been fixed to where there arent as many immediate side effects but it's still not one of the safest things to do. There are lots of reasons to not get an X-ray but the good reasons out weigh the bad ones.
