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  • Germany
    Wednesday Jan 1, 1896
    X-ray

    Sending the news

    Germany
    Wednesday Jan 1, 1896

    Röntgen immediately noticed X-rays could have medical applications. Along with his 28 December Physical-Medical Society submission he sent a letter to physicians he knew around Europe (January 1, 1896).




  • Scotland, United Kingdom
    Jan, 1896
    X-ray

    The second to create the photo

    Scotland, United Kingdom
    Jan, 1896

    Scottish electrical engineer Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton is the first after Röntgen to create an X-ray (of a hand). Through February there were 46 experimenters taking up the technique in North America alone.




  • Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
    Sunday Jan 12, 1896
    X-ray

    First use under clinical conditions

    Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
    Sunday Jan 12, 1896

    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.




  • Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.
    Jan, 1896
    X-ray

    Pului's design

    Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.
    Jan, 1896

    The first medical X-ray made in the United States was obtained using a discharge tube of Pului'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 Pului tube produced X-rays.




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