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The Head Bone's Connected to the Neck Bone
The Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful X-ray
By McClafferty, Carla Killough
- ISBN
- 978-0-37432-908-2
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2001
Gr 6-10 The fascinating and often strange history of the X-ray is traced from its accidental discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895 through its extremely sophisticated, life-saving uses today. Its early applications, often unwittingly hazardous and/or comical, included near sideshow antics wherein crowds gathered to see their own bones or create X-ray portraits of themselves, as well as creative ones, such as Thoma...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
