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LL/61304
Unidentified photographer
1897
The first demonstration of x-rays in Texas by Robert S. Heyer at Southwestern University in Georgetown.

Albumen print
9 x 13 ins
 
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
Heyer, the man standing on the left by the table had built a working x-ray machine after reading about Röntgen's 1895 discovery. Heyer was the first President of SMU.
 
LL/61304


 

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