You can see right through the story: the first patients on 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 that x-rays were not invented for scientific or medical purposes.

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen once stayed late at work in the laboratory of the Physics Institute of the University of Würzburg and discovered X-rays. The first image that emerged after the radiation was the hand of Roentgen's wife Anna Bertha Ludwig. When the properties of X-rays were used in medicine, patients attacked hospitals to identify all their ailments, despite the fact that at first X-rays were quite dangerous. X-rays collided with another popular invention of the late 19th century: photography. And this is what came of it.

Austria, 1910.

Chest X-ray, Paris, 1914.

One of the most advanced, but strange devices at the Roentgen Institute. A modern car that “looks through.” Frankfurt, Germany, 1929.

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

Film star Judith Allen with a shot of her back, 1930.

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

The latest 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 Abreu invented the X-ray to detect lung diseases.

X-ray technician in the US 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.

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