The X-ray Shoe Fitter - An Early Application of Roentgen's `New Kind of Ray'
Abstract
This paper provides some history of Roentgen's famous discovery of x-rays, a technical review of radiation exposure units, and a history and overview of the risk associated from using or being near one of the earliest of x-ray applications, the x-ray shoe fitter.
- Publication:
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The Physics Teacher
- Pub Date:
- September 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1119/1.1790343
- Bibcode:
- 2004PhTea..42..354L
- Keywords:
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- 01.65.+g;
- 01.75.+m;
- 87.59.-e;
- History of science;
- Science and society;
- X-ray imaging