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Updated: June 1, 2025

If, as is the case, however, the extraordinary scientific movement provoked by Röntgen's sensational experiments has a very remote origin, it has, at least, been singularly quickened by the favourable conditions created by the interest aroused in its astonishing applications to radiography.

Lucien Poincaré - The New Physics and Its Evolution

Then, by mail and telegraph, came daily clear indications of the stir which the discovery was making in all the great line of universities between Vienna and Berlin. Then Röntgen's own report arrived, so cool, so business-like, and so truly scientific in character, that it left no doubt either of the truth or of the great importance of the preceding reports.

Various - McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896

*The X Ray; or, Photography of the Invisible and its Value in Surgery* By WILLIAM J. MORTON, M.D. Written in collaboration with EDWIN W. HAMMER. 1 volume, 12mo, cloth and silver, 75 cents; paper, 50 cents. Everyone has been waiting for this work to give full information of Professor Rontgen's marvellous discovery.

Joseph Francis Ladue - Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest

Induction coils have long been in use for purposes of research, and in later years have been employed in the production both of the Röntgen rays used in the photography of the invisible, and the electro-magnetic waves used in wireless telegraphy. Röntgen's discovery was published in 1895.

John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 : The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents