@inbook{0340276b9d7c4783a425beb955b3279f,
title = "X-Rays: Technological Revelation and its Cultural Receptions",
abstract = "The name {\textquoteleft}x-ray{\textquoteright} was so given to signify the unknown origin of an almost-imperceptible force that could penetrate matter. The discovery of the x-ray further expanded the visual horizon of modern culture{\textquoteright}s imagination: newspapers and magazines published thousands of stories about the new sensation in 1896 alone; scientists turned their attention to this mysterious force that would dominate research and scientific publications; within a month x-rays were used to support surgery and within six months used by surgeons to identify bullets within a soldier{\textquoteright}s body. Within popular visual culture, x-ray machines appeared as fair attractions – with some exhibitors looking to swap cinematic projections of trains for the x-ray machine{\textquoteright}s spectacle of making a state of interiority into an exterior image. Indeed, the relation between the modernity{\textquoteright}s new visual media – such as photography, cinema and the x-ray – made a great impression upon the artistic avant-garde through the radical expansion of perception and reality within modern culture.",
author = "Thomas Slevin",
year = "2022",
month = sep,
language = "English",
isbn = "9781474460545",
series = "The Edinburgh Companion to...",
publisher = "Edinburgh University Press",
pages = "175--191",
booktitle = "The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology",
address = "United Kingdom",
}