Toussaint

rbms4 — 1896-7 EXTREMELY EARLY ALBUM OF X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHS<br /><br />X-RAYS Barthelemy Toussaint & Oudin Paul Oblong 8vo burgundy leatherette rubbed with loss to spine. 1896-7. The album contains containing silver gelatin prints 15 each approximately 5x7 inches or slightly smaller. The extraordinary x-ray photographs feature multiple views of the bones of hands a few with broken joints an done taken under a cracked glass filter and other skeletal regions of the human body.<br />The most unusual perhaps is a purse and the sole of a shoe which foreshadows x-ray airport security as well as a rat which is certainly among the earliest examples of animal radiography. See: https://timeline.com/early-xrays-hidden-world-6bbc3a3fb267<br />Provenance: Swann Galleries New York 19 February 2002 Fine<br />Photographs lot 33<br /><br />Becquerel himself learned of the discovery of radiology on January<br />20 1896 when two physicians and French pioneers in the new medium<br />Paul Oudin and Toussaint Barthélemy submitted an X-ray image of a<br />hand to the Académie des Sciences. The submission date of their paper<br />Jan 20 almost coincides with Roentgen's announcement of his<br />discovery of x-rays that very month