File:Double focus X-ray tube, Europe, 1896 Wellcome L0057033.jpg

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Double focus X-ray tube, Europe, 1896
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Double focus X-ray tube, Europe, 1896
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This tube worked by using an alternating current, which accelerates electrons towards an aluminium plate. This produced x-rays at both ends of the tube. Wilhelm Röntgen, a German physician, took the first x-ray in 1896 of his wife’s left hand. Dense areas of bone show up as white whilst soft tissue allow the x-ray to pass through undeterred. Very quickly x-rays proved their usefulness as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine. Within six months of Röntgen’s announcement x-rays were being used by battlefield physicians to locate bullets in wounded soldiers. X-rays allowed physicians their first look inside the body without resorting to surgery.

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Place made: Europe

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Keywords: x-ray tube; Radiology
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  • Library reference: Science Museum A201
  • Photo number: L0057033
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