This was one of the first, possibly THE first, X-ray photographs taken. It actually has an entertaining backstory in which these three students broke into their professor's laboratory by bribing the janitor. They worked there late at night and exposed this image to x-rays for three hours to produce the first x-ray photograph. Today is its 115th birthday.
I think the objects in the picture are a cadaver's finger with pins in it, a rubber covered magnifying glass, a pill box containing two 22 cartridges, one pin, two rings, and six Strychnine pills (commonly used by students at that time to stay awake during finals), and an egg that been emptied and had a button placed inside. It kind of reminds me of the photograms we did in intro photo.
http://gizmodo.com/5731754/how-three-college-kids-illegally-captured-the-nations-first-x+ray-photograph
2 comments:
Very cool. I like how sharp the bullets and the rings turned out, but the pins in the finger are kinda creepy..
Strychnine tablets, dead finger and bullets! Wow... very macabre. Seems very coincidental or staged to me. I'm feeling dubious about this image now...
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