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This Was The First Human X-Ray Ever Taken

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In 1895, while experimenting with cathode rays, physics professor Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, asked his wife to set her hand on a photographic plate. The result was the very first human x-ray. Here’s the full story of how it happened.

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