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"Electricity"
Sir William Gibert gives name of "electricity" to the same phenomenon found in lighting in his book De Magnete. -
Natural Vacuum
Evangelista Torricelli discovers natural vacuum above a column of mercury in a glass tube that is induced by gravity. -
"Electrical Machine"
Otto von Guericke builds "electrucal machine" to generate sparks early 1700s, Francis Haukesbee may have been first person to prodice x ray when he observes a glow discharge during experiment with a vacuum tube. -
May have produced x rays...
Abbe Jean Nollet may have produced x rays while experimenting with an electrical egg. -
First electric battery
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Michael Faraday notes...
Michael Faraday notes that interior of a glass tube emptied of air glows when electrivity is discharged between electrodes mounted at each end of the tube. -
Wilhelm Rontgen Birth
Was born at Lennep in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany, as the only child of a merchant in, and manufacturer of, cloth. His mother was Charlotte Constanze Frowein of Amsterdam, a member of an old Lennep family which had settled in Amsterdam. -
Entered in to the University of Utrecht
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Discobers cathode rays
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Graduated with Ph D. from the University of Zurich
Was appointed assistant to Kundt and went with him to Würzburg in the same year, and three years later to Strasbourg. -
Crookes Tube
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Heinrich Hertz
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Discovers that carhode rays can...
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Experimenting with cathode rays
was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895 when he noticed that his tubes could make a screen glow even when there was something in the way He had discovered. -
Discovered X-rays
The German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen made one of the most important medical discoveries of the modern age- radiographic imaging of the body. (From handout) -
Discover radioactivity
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Proves the ecistence of electrons
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Founding of American Roentgen Society
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Coolidge Tube
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Implements first use of systematic x rays testing
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Death
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Stone monument created
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Ultrasound
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MRI
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Diagnostic x rays systems
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First MRI imaging of human brain takes place
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Introduction of digital x ray
