Hand mit Ringen: Radiographic print

Hand mit Ringen: Radiographic print

German professor of physics, Dr. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discovered "a new kind of ray"—later known as the X-ray—in November 1895 and recorded the first X-ray images on photographic plates during the following weeks. This blurry image is a print from one of the first X-rays of a human being ever produced and said to depict the hand and wedding ring of Röntgen’s wife, Bertha.

Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923

1895 December 22

H MS c1 [Hawes Collection]

1 image

Radiographic Print

E2003.1.47

Gift of Dr. Raymond A. Dillon to the Lloyd E. Hawes Collection in the History of Radiology, Harvard Medical Library, 1975