How Three College Kids Illegally Captured the Nation’s First X-Ray Photograph
On the evening of January 12 , 1896 , three Davidson College juniors bribed a janitor and sneaked into a physics research lab , carrying with them a cadaver ’s digit and other strange item . They did n’t realize that they were about to make history . Dr. Henry Louis Smith , the scholarly person ’ aperient professor , had just caught wind of the breakthrough of go - rays by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen ....