Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 354–358, September 2004
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The X-ray Shoe Fitter — An Early Application of Roentgen's `New Kind of Ray'
David R. Lapp
Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley, CA
This paper provides some history of Roentgen's famous discovery of x-rays, a technical review of radiation exposure units, and a history and overview of the risk associated from using or being near one of the earliest of x-ray applications, the x-ray shoe fitter. ©2004 American Association of Physics Teachers
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