Then, in 1895, the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen was tinkering with a vacuum tube that had two electrical connections, known as cathodes, attached to it. When he ran an electric current through the ...
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...
On January 12, 1896, three students at Davidson College experimented with x-rays. On January 6, 1896, the Associated Press announced that German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered a new form of ...