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Publishing date: Feb 17, 2021 • February 17, 2021 • 4 minute read Four mentions of the X-ray were published in The Daily British Whig on Feb. 17, 1896. jpg, KI
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L. John Schreiner
One hundred and twenty-five years ago on Feb. 17, 1896, news concerning the recently discovered X-rays appeared in two items in Kingston’s The Daily British Whig, both reporting on X-ray photographs taken that week in Ontario.
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X-rays had been discovered the previous November by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in Wurzburg, Germany, but professor Roentgen did not announce his discovery for some time. Rather, he spent the last weeks of 1895 diligently working alone in his laboratory to confirm his initial observations and to further characterize the nature of the previously unknown rays. He f