At the outbreak of world war i in august 1914 many hospitals in many countries already had x ray machines.
Mobile x ray machines world war 1.
By the end of the war she had built 20 mobile units and some 200 permanent posts.
Lasting effects helped develop the idea for our modern x ray machines helped discover that x rays were harmful since it was believed otherwise before the people getting x rays and setting them up were effected led the way to the portable x ray machine mri s ct scans etc.
X rays at war 1915.
January 30 1915 x rays were used for medical operations within a couple of months after they were discovered by.
Reported in scientific american this week in world war i.
Curie launched a project to establish a radiological service for the french army and bring x ray machines nearer to the battlefield.
During world war i marie curie left her lab behind inventing a mobile x ray unit that could travel to the battlefront and training 150 women to operate these little curies.