MEDICAL IMAGING                                                   

Rontgen's discovery of X- rays made headline news in 1896. In the first few years of the twentieth century, the public was fascinated by the prospect of seeing through clothing and flesh. The flocked to demonstrations where volunteers, flooded with X-rays, showed their bones and internal organs. An estimated three million X-ray offered more than high entertainment.

They were the first in a series of new imaging technologies that would transform our ability to inside the body. A German Physicist, Wilhelm Rontgen, was awarded the first Noble Prize for physics in 1901 for his work on X-rays. 

His most famous early X-ray photograph showed the bones of his wife's hand.

                                                 NEW LAMPS AVAILABLE

Incandescent tungsten filament lamps have gone on sale in the United States. The Bulbs, which contain filament made of tungsten will replace the carbon filament lamps used since the 1870's. Carbon is very brittle, and a longer - lasting filament material has been sought for a long time.

Tungsten was obvious choice, but it is only recently that scientists could convert the metal into a wire that can be used as a filament.

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