Lot 44: X-RAY Music 1896 Doctors Medical Radiology Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 48.79 Time Left - Bid Count 5 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, September 04, 2008 End Time Thursday, September 11, 2008 Location Tucson, Arizona See more about 'Lot 44: X-RAY Music 1896 Doctors Medical Radiology' Description   INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS: WE WILL SHIP THIS ITEM ***ONLY*** TO USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, EUROPE. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND INSURANCE AS WE WILL NOT BEAR RESPONSIBILTY FOR LOST, BROKEN OR STOLEN ITEMS!! PLEASE READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION BEFORE BIDDING.   TO SAVE ANY OF THESE PICTURES FOR YOUR RECORDS CLICK AND HOLD ON THE PHOTO AND SAVE IT TO YOUR COMPUTER. ALL PICTURES WILL BE REMOVED AS SOON AS THE AUCTION ENDS.  ANY QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT US BEFORE BIDDING   * *     * *   *   RARE 1896 X RAY SHEET MUSIC   We take PAYPAL, Money Orders or, if your rating is above 99/4%, a personal check too!   We can send this for $4.00 by MEDIA RATE in the USA with confirmation of delivery. Music is in  GOOD CONDITION WITH NO FOXING.   X RAY WALTZES 1896 - by Harry L. Tyler. Published by John Guntrup, Corning, New York.  This extremely rare sheet music shows an X Ray machine from 1896 doing an X Ray of a human hand!!  The music is in GOOD CONDITION with no foxing but has a separated spine and the lower left corner of the cover page is folded.   An X-ray (or Röntgen ray) is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz to 30 EHz. They are longer than Gamma rays but shorter than UV rays. X-rays are primarily used for diagnostic radiography and crystallography. X-rays are a form of ionizing radiation and as such can be dangerous. In many languages it is called Röntgen radiation after one of the first investigators of the X-rays, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.   Among the important early researchers in X-rays were Professor Ivan Pulyui, Sir William Crookes, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Eugen Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard, Hermann von Helmholtz, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Charles Glover Barkla, Max von Laue, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. In a humorous case of hindsight, Lord Kelvin said "X-Rays are a hoax".   In 1877 Ukranian-born Pulyui, a lecturer in experimental physics at the University of Vienna, constructed various designs of vacuum discharge tube to investigate their properties. He continued his investigations when appointed professor at the Prague Polytechnic and in 1886 he found that that sealed photographic plates became dark when exposed to the emanations from the tubes. Early in 1896, just a few weeks after Röntgen published his first X-ray photograph, Pulyui published high-quality x-ray images in journals in Paris and London. Although Pulyui had studied with Röntgen at the University of Strasbourg in the years 1873-75, his biographer Gaida (1997) asserts that his subsequent research was conducted independently. The first medical X-ray made in the United States was obtained using a discharge tube of Pulyui's design. In January 1896, on reading of Röntgen's discovery, Frank Austin of Dartmouth College tested all of the discharge tubes in the physics laboratory and found that only the Pulyui tube produced X-rays. This was a result of Pulyui's inclusion of an oblique "target" of mica used for holding samples of fluorescent material, within the tube. On 3 February 1896 Gilman Frost, professor of medicine at the college, and his brother Edwin Frost, professor of physics, exposed the wrist of Eddie McCarthy, whom Edwin had treated some weeks earlier for a fracture, to the x-rays and collected the resulting image of the broken bone on gelatin photographic plates obtained from Howard Langill, a local photographer also interested in Röntgen's work. This Dartmouth College test seems to be what is depicted on the cover of our sheet music. The image of the actual X Ray Machine is quite extraodinary and is probably the first example ever shown on sheet music and maybe even the only one!     IF YOUR FEEDBACK IS BELOW 99.5% DO NOT BID AS WE WILL NOT SELL TO MULTIPLE NEGATIVE BUYERS ANYMORE.     Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!