Unidentified photographer 1897 The first demonstration of x-rays in Texas by Robert S. Heyer at Southwestern University in Georgetown. [Detail showing an x-ray of a hand]
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus Robert Stewart Hyer, 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.
