Early Success of X-Ray Generation in Japanese Meiji Age.

Abstract

X-ray was detected by W. C. Roentgen on November 8,1895. X-ray detection was first introduced at the Berlin Society of Physics in Cerebration of the 50th Anniversary. Japanese physicist, Dr. H. Nagaoka was present at that meeting and watched the first X-ray picture of the human hand. According to his report, two groups achieved a great success in February to March 1896. One group was Dr. K. Yamakawa and Mr. K. Tsuruta, and another one was Mr. T. Mizuno in Tokyo. Early Successes in two months showed Japanese ability and activity shortly after the changing from the feudral to the modern age by Japanese "Meiji Revolution".