Nikola Tesla film in his laboratory in previous experiments (later identified as ""Roentgen rays"" or "X-Rays"). His early experiments were with Crookes tubes, a cold cathode electrical discharge tube. Tesla may have inadvertently captured an X-ray image—predating, by a few weeks, Wilhelm Röntgen's December 1895 announcement of the discovery of X-rays when he tried to photograph Mark Twain illuminated by a Geissler tube, an earlier type of gas discharge tube. The only thing captured in the image was the metal locking screw on the camera lens. In March 1896, after hearing of Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-ray and X-ray imaging (radiography), Tesla
Friedrich Wilhelm Theile addition to his own writings, he translated several works by foreign physicians and scientists — Louis Delasiauve, Franciscus Cornelis Donders, Auguste Ambroise Tardieu, Pieter Harting and Jacobus Schroeder van der Kolk. Friedrich Wilhelm Theile Friedrich Wilhelm Theile (11 November 1801, in Buttstädt – 20 October 1879, in Weimar) was a German physician and anatomist. In 1825 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Jena with the dissertation-thesis "De Musculis nervisque laryngeis". From 1828, with Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Wackenroder, he was in charge of the pharmaceutical institute at Jena. In 1831 he became an associate professor, and three years