Marie curie inventions x-ray

These days the phrase “mobile x‑ray unit” is like­ly to spark heat­ed debate about pri­va­cy, pub­lic health, and free­dom of infor­ma­tion, espe­cial­ly in New York City, where the police force has been less than forth­com­ing about its use of mil­i­tary grade Z Backscat­ter sur­veil­lance vans.

A hun­dred years ago, Mobile X‑Ray Units were a brand new inno­va­tion, and a god­send for sol­diers wound­ed on the front in WW1.

Pri­or to the advent of this tech­nol­o­gy, field sur­geons rac­ing to save lives oper­at­ed blind­ly, often caus­ing even more injury as they groped for bul­lets and shrap­nel whose pre­cise loca­tions remained a mys­tery.

Marie Curie was just set­ting up shop at Paris’ Radi­um Insti­tute, a world cen­ter for the study of radioac­tiv­i­ty, when war broke out.

Many of her researchers left to fight, while Curie per­son­al­ly deliv­ered France’s sole sam­ple of radi­um by t