 |
Register Subscribe Login |
| 1895 | Europe - Germany Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen, 1896, 23 January, X-ray picture of the hand of Alfred von Kolliker, X-ray, Source requested, | Professor Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , Professor of Physics and Vice Chancellor of the University of Würzburg, discovers rays that pass through seemingly solid objects, these are later called x-rays. | 2005 | North America - USA | A 1989 photograph of the Marborough cowboy by Richard Prince is sold in a Contemporary Art auction at Christie's in New York for $1,248,000 creating a new world record for a photograph. |