For decades, the pair of glass X-ray plates from 1896 sat snugly wrapped in tissue paper, inside a Wanamaker department store box, in a spare closet in New Zealand.
"Arthur's plates ... 2 early X-ray pictures," reads the handwriting on the box.
Arthur was Penn physics professor Arthur Goodspeed, believed to have created the world's first X-ray image at the University of Pennsylvania in 1890-entirely by accident. And those plates represent some of the world's earliest experiments with X-rays.
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