X-Ray Image Taken By Nikola Tesla (1896)

The discovery of X-rays is credited to German scientist Wilhelm Roentgen for first detecting the electromagnetic radiations by accident in his 1895 experiments where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass. Not many know this, but Nikola Tesla was experimenting in the same field prior to Roentgen and published his experimental results in numerous scientific periodicals during the early 1890s. Since these rays were still unknown Tesla used the term “radiant matter" to describe these radiations. Tesla produced some of the first X-ray imaging, which he called “shadowgraphs,” but his laboratory caught fire on March 13, 1895, and Tesla would lose everything including all photos and paperwork.

He would later give all credit to Rontgen for the discovery, and throughout the next few years produced some of the best X-ray images that even Roentgen praised. Tesla would also be the first scientist to warn the scientific community about the harms of X-rays, and designed methods to use them correctly.

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the story of psyche

Denis Maurice, The Story of Psyche, 1908, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg: 1) Eros is Struck by Psyche’s Beauty; 2) Zephyr Transporting Psyche to the Isle of Delight; 3) Psyche Discovers that Her Mysterious Lover is Eros; 4) The Vengeance of Venus; 5) Jupiter Bestows Immortality on Psyche; 6) Psyche’s Kin Bid Her Farewell on a Mountain Top; 7) Cupid Carrying Psyche Up to Heaven.

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Portrait of Kosovar-Romani bride from the Elmaz family in Prizren, Kosovo, 1987. Photo by: @janet.reineck

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It Was Never About The Money Or The Drugs

it was never about the money or the drugs

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YALLSTARION

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ok but the way he's still kind of getting outcunted by the guy on the left

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everyone shut the fuck up i’m trying to focus on my diabolical homosexual thoughts

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people who dont experience it cannot comprehend how awful executive dysfunction is. I WANT to do the task, i have the resources TO do the task, i will feel better having DONE the task

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