History Flashcards
Manufactured a miniature version of the X-ray tube placed inside the head of an X-ray machine and immersed oil
Victor X-ray corporation of Chicago
Made the first dental radiograph in the US using a skull
W.J. Morton
Exposed the first dental radiograph in the US using a live patient
Carl Edmund KELLS
Built the first vacuum tube
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geissler
Electrical engineer who developed the first hot cathode X-ray tube in 1913
William Coolidge
Made the first dental radiograph
Otto walkoff
Published the first paper on the dangers associated with radiation
William Herbert Rollins
Father of modern dental radiography
F. Gordon Fitzgerald
First to expose a panoramic radiograph (intraoral)
Hisatugu numata
Established the first collage course in radiography for dental students
Howard Riley Raper
Develop first dental x-Ray unit
William Herbert Rollins
Authored one of the first dental radiography textbook
Howard Riley raper
This became the prototype for all modern X-ray tube
Coolidge’s X-ray tube
Introduced an X-ray machine with improved features in 1933
General Electric
Date where dental X-ray packets consisted of glass photographic plate or film cut into small pieces and hand wrapped in black paper and rubber
1896- 1913