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Scott Fusare
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Picture pilfered from Ebay item # 120185232200. Per the text, it was intended as a diode in an old x-ray system.
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This is a very nice high voltage rectifier for an x-ray tube, build by Carl Heinrich Florenz Mueller in Hamburg, Germany, probably around 1910.

>http://www.radiology-museum.be/French/C ... cord=o-418

C.H.F. Mueller started building x-ray tubes in January 1896, just a few weeks after the discovery of x-rays by Roentgen. This evolved into a rather famous company then, which is now part of Philips.

These tubes were used in hospitals for x-ray imaging just months after their invention, where they have been life saving ever since. For Mueller, the new form of light brought death. After having worked several years in the design of new tubes, Mueller developed a severe radiation sickness and tumors, of which he died in 1912.
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Very Interesting! Thanks Scott and Wilfried. It never ceases to surprsie me how quickly some parts of technical discovery become implemented. It's also sad that so often the insightful pioneers, paid with their own lives.

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The photo is a bit frightening. It looks like someone just fired it up in their living room for the photo. Yikes!
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No problem for short periods of exposure to x-rays, of course, and besides it is a diode. X-rays would be there, but soft only.

X-ray tubes and x-ray technology was rather fully developed before the physicists could explain what they were and where they came from. Technology of some useful devices have, in the past, out paced the scientists ability to precisely define the processes immediately. It just shows that engineers and experimenters once onto something don't often wait around for the scientists to get their act together in orer to improve and expand into useful devices. They'll get it working even if it kills them. Most early deaths were x-ray technicians and experimenters. Some medical doctors even developed and furthered x-ray tubes and technology.

X-ray burns were known within months of the discovery but long term, moderate, repeated exposure issues had to have a few hundred die before the link was firmly established.

One of a kind image of continuing interest get this one archived

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