The World's First X-ray Device
The medical industry evolves quickly and new advancements seem to occur almost weekly. It is always instructive to look back 50 or a hundred years for real perspective on how far along the industry has come. The work you will do upon enterring this field as a medical biller/coder will surely look very different 50 years from today. We can only wonder what it may look like. We know that electronic records keeping is a growing trend that will change the face of the medical office. Dutch medical inventors H J Hoffmans and Lambertus Theodorus van Kleef couldn’t have imagined the modern MRI or CAT scanner when they developed the world’s first x-ray scanner in the late 1800s. Read about their breakthrough in
this fascinating article.
Wow! Nice invention. This is the first world’s x-ray device that has been invented.
That is a great invention;but thank God for technologhy and the ability to upgrade, because that is so ancient. And looks as though it would not do any good in todays medical field..