Dunno if that's a real pic or not, but conceptually it fits. The x-ray tubes (Crookes tubes, cold-cathode x-ray generators) in the background are historically right and fit the date. Other than the tube, all you needed was a high voltage source. An emitter on one side, and a fluorescent screen (the viewer) on the other would be a typical early effort- think spinthariscope, which was invented in 1903. We know now that everything in sight was getting a horrific dose of hard radiation, but that's how early tech works: sometimes, poorly, with considerable risk.
I noticed that his hands were on the outside of the xray feedhorn. History recalls that he first tried it with his hands cupping her; but then got a false reading after realizing titties don't have bones.
Dunno if that's a real pic or not, but conceptually it fits. The x-ray tubes (Crookes tubes, cold-cathode x-ray generators) in the background are historically right and fit the date. Other than the tube, all you needed was a high voltage source. An emitter on one side, and a fluorescent screen (the viewer) on the other would be a typical early effort- think spinthariscope, which was invented in 1903. We know now that everything in sight was getting a horrific dose of hard radiation, but that's how early tech works: sometimes, poorly, with considerable risk.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget those nifty shoe-fitting fluoroscopes blasting radiation into people's naughty bits back in the day.
DeleteFactually incorrect, Roentgen discovered “xrays”. He radiographed his wife hand with ring. That would be the true first “xray.”
ReplyDeleteTodd near Denver
Yes, deadly set-up.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that his hands were on the outside of the xray feedhorn. History recalls that he first tried it with his hands cupping her; but then got a false reading after realizing titties don't have bones.
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