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Almanac: The first American X-ray

Name: Almanac: The first American X-ray
Uploaded: 2014-01-12T01:27:00-0500
Duration: 2 min 17 s
Description: On January 12, 1896, three college students bribed a janitor to let them into a physics lab at Davidson College in North Carolina, where they produced the country's first X-ray image.

On January 12, 1896, three college students bribed a janitor to let them into a physics lab at Davidson College in North Carolina, where they produced the country's first X-ray image.