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Cavendish Laboratory : X-ray tube made for JJ Thomson (1896)

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Photograph of an x-ray tube made for JJ Thomson in 1896 by his personal assistant Ebereezer Everett. Discovered in November 1895 by Röntgen, X-rays became a matter of the greatest public interest overnight. In 1896 there were already more than 1000 articles on X-rays. They became a medical diagnostic tool and the Laboratory provided facilities for taking X-rays of broken bones, etc. See P27.</p>

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