On the night of November 8, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen finished his supper and went to his laboratory to conduct some routine experiments. Roentgen had no way of knowing that, ...

“I have seen my death!” Those were the words uttered by Bertha Roentgen upon viewing a skeletal photo of her hand. Her husband, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, a Bavarian physicist, produced this first ...

In 1895, while experimenting with cathode rays, physics professor Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, asked his wife to set her hand on a photographic plate. The result was the very first human x-ray. Here’s the ...

Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on unlined paper with the printed letterhead of the Physikalisches Institut, Universität München, Munich, Germany. Accompanied by envelope with stamp ...

Medical technology may have improved a tad in the last century, but the humble X-ray machine, whose basic principle was discovered in 1895 by the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, has hardly ...

Nov. 8, Election Day, is important, however not nearly as important as was Nov. 8, 1895. It was on this day that Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-ray. This diagnostic medical medium has evolved ...