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The Secret History of X-Ray Specs


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"I have seen my death!" Anna Bertha Röntgen is said to have exclaimed upon seeing the first X-ray photograph ever made–an image of the bones in her hand. It was her husband, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, who discovered X-rays in 1895.

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