The somewhat creepy discovery of X-rays, and the X-ray soap that followed

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Clarification to the image at 03:18 -- This is just an illustration! Röntgen would not have seen his bones that well, not with this method, and not with this equipment. You see this later in the x-ray image of his wife's hand, and that probably had some exposure time. (I'd rather not know exactly which...)

I was recently trying to figure out just how X-rays were discovered. The first 3 explanations didn't make any sense to me and before I knew it, I had 12 books about Wilhelm Röntgen on my desk because my brain is a wild place. I eventually figured out what must have happened, I believe, and thought you might find it interesting, too.

Oh, and the reason the shoe-box has the word "Ostern" (German for "Easter") written on it is that my husband's family has used it for decades to store dies for Easter eggs. (Which we still do today.)

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