William L. Robb Gives a Lecture on Roentgen Photography to the Friday Night Club at Asylum Hill Congregational Church

04/10/1896 |

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William Robb gave a lecture on “Roentgen Photography” to the Friday Night Club in the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Chapel.

  1. The lecture was given for the benefit of foreign missions.
  2. The lecture was well-attended.
  3. At the end of the lecture, Robb used an Edison fluoroscope and a tungstate of calcium screen to demonstrate x-rays to the audience
  4. Spectators saw their hands through a board and a coin in a purse.

Henry Green applied for permit to build a laboratory in his back yard on May 1, 1896.

"The lecture was very similar to the one Professor Robb gave at the college and which was reported in full in ‘The Courant’ at the time.”

Unattributed, “Looked through a Board: Professor Robb Uses a Fluoroscope at His Lecture,” Hartford Courant, April 11, 1896, page 8.

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