Hand Eines 8 Jährigen Mädchens, x-ray by Eder and Valenta
X-ray photograph entitled 'Hand Eines 8 Jährigen Mädchens' (Hand Of An 8 Year Old Girl), by Josef Maria Eder, 1896. Röntgen x-ray, a plate from the book 'Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen'schen Strahlen'.
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Like light, X rays are a type of radiation. They are invisible to our eyes but can be revealed using photographs. Because they can pass through the soft parts of our bodies, but not our bones, they can create images of our skeletons. After they were discovered in 1895, they quickly became a useful tool for scientists and doctors.
Joseph Maria Eder was an Austrian chemist who specialised in the chemistry of photography. Working with another photochemist, Eduard Valenta, he produced a portfolio of X-ray photographs just a month after Wilhel Conrad Röntgen had published his discover of X-rays.
- Measurements:
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overall: 500 mm x 350 mm
image: 174 mm x 84 mm
printed area: 205 mm x 115 mm
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/11279/2
- type:
- photograph , x-ray photograph and photogravure
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
