X-ray: Timeline

1895   Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays.

1896   An Austria Austria

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n newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.

1896   H.L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph.

1896   The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.

1900   A man claims that X-rays have cured his cancer.

1998   NASA NASA

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 announces the choice of United States Air Force United States Air Force

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 Lt. Col. Eileen Collins as commander of a future Space Shuttle ''Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia

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'' mission to launch an X-ray telescope, making Collins the first woman commander of a space shuttle Space Shuttle

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 mission.