Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
X-rays yesterday and today: on the left is an X-ray image of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s hunting rifle taken in 1896. On the right is a recent image taken at the Fraunhofer IIS Development Center X-ray Technology EZRT.
First X-ray |
1896 |
Original owner |
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen |
Privately owned by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
In addition to his wife Bertha’s hand, Röntgen’s hunting rifle was one of the first subjects to be recorded for posterity as an X-ray image in 1896 with the aid of photographic plates.
In 2015, a full 120 years later, researchers at Fraunhofer EZRT repeated the X-ray examinations, this time with cutting-edge technology: industrial 3D computed tomography.
