Röntgen's X-Rays as mirrored in public interest
On Friday night, 8th November 1895, the physician Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen from Würzburg discovered a new type of radiation while doing tests with cathode ray tubes. Within just six weeks of intensive research, he succeeded in exploring the essential characteristics of the X-rays- or "Röntgen rays" as they were named after him later on.
![Edisons X-ray apparatus on the occasion of an exhibition in New York in May 1896](/media/story/2348/image-1413132797.jpg)
This article was first published in the VISIONS, issue 1/2001, a publication of Toshiba Medical Systems
28.08.2007