But these machines of course were far removed from the battlefield where many people were facing dire injury and death.
Portable x ray machine ww1.
But at the start of the war x ray machines were still found only in city hospitals far from the battlefields where wounded troops were being treated.
As the war dragged on and casualties mounted people realized that many lives could be saved if quick diagnosis by x ray was possible.
One of these people was marie curie.
Many hospitals didn t know even have x ray departments at the time so this was an amazing accomplishment.
By 1914 curie was already one of the most famous.
Marie curie her daughter and a doctor drove around treating the french soldiers in the vans.
Here is the description of the use and limitations of mobile x ray units by surgeon major dr.
Curie s solution was to invent the first.
African american inventor frederick jones developed an even smaller portable x ray machine in 1919 jones also invented refrigeration units air conditioning units and the self starting gasoline lawnmower.
The vans were filled with technology and books of anatomy.
Horse drawn x ray cart used by the german.
The machines could find bullets in soldiers undetectable by eye.
In july 1898 marie wrote a paper saying that she had found an element and.
In the year 1894 marie was given a grant to study magnetism she also met her husband and science partner pierre curie.
Portable x ray during wwi acknowledgments early life road to invention how it works.
By the end of the war there were 18 of these radiologic cars or little curies in operation.