The Invention That Changed Everything
He Saw Through His Wife's Hand and the World Was Never the Same
On November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen was working alone in a darkened laboratory when he noticed a fluorescent screen glowing across the room. He spent six weeks barely eating or sleeping, telling no one. When he finally showed his wife, he asked her to place her hand on a photographic plate. She saw her own skeleton and said she had seen her own death.