When Stanford University physics professor Fernando Sanford created his "electric photography", he also unknowingly generated and detected X-rays. This work was further explored by Humphry Davy and his assistant Michael Faraday. In 1785, he presented a paper to the Royal Society of London describing the effects of passing electrical currents through a partially evacuated glass tube, producing a glow created by X-rays. The earliest experimenter thought to have (unknowingly) produced X-rays was William Morgan. This voltage accelerated the electrons coming from the cathode to a high enough velocity that they created X-rays when they struck the anode or the glass wall of the tube. Crookes tubes created free electrons by ionization of the residual air in the tube by a high DC voltage of anywhere between a few kilovolts and 100 kV.
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Many of the early Crookes tubes (invented around 1875) undoubtedly radiated X-rays, because early researchers noticed effects that were attributable to them, as detailed below. They were noticed by scientists investigating cathode rays produced by such tubes, which are energetic electron beams that were first observed in 1869. History Pre-Röntgen observations and research Example of a Crookes tube, a type of discharge tube that emitted X-raysīefore their discovery in 1895, X-rays were just a type of unidentified radiation emanating from experimental discharge tubes. Their generation and use is strictly controlled by public health authorities. However X-rays are ionizing radiation, and exposure to high intensities can be hazardous to health, causing DNA damage, cancer, and at high dosages burns and radiation sickness. X-rays can penetrate many solid substances such as construction materials and living tissue, so X-ray radiography is widely used in medical diagnostics (e.g., checking for broken bones) and material science (e.g., identification of some chemical elements and detecting weak points in construction materials). Roughly, X-rays have a wavelength ranging from 10 nanometers to 10 picometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range of 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz ( 3 ×10 16 Hz to 3 ×10 19 Hz) and photon energies in the range of 100 eV to 100 keV, respectively. There is no universally accepted, strict definition of the bounds of the X-ray band. X-ray wavelengths are shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays. In many languages, it is referred to as Röntgen radiation, after the German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered it in 1895 and named it X-radiation to signify an unknown type of radiation. X-ray (or much less commonly, X-radiation) is a high-energy electromagnetic radiation. William Coolidge explains medical imaging and X-rays. Note the edges of hollow cylinders as compared to the solid candle. Natural color X-ray photogram of a wine scene.
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Not to be confused with X-wave or X-band. For other uses, see X-ray (disambiguation). For the medical specialty, see Radiology. For the method of imaging, see Radiography.
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This article is about the nature, production, and uses of the radiation.