X-Ray as exciting technology: 1939
Dot-com exuberance from June, 1939: Mechanix Illustrated's ecstatic article, "X-Ray Solves the Secret of Life!"Link
The X-ray is more than the tool of the surgeon. It is a force in the change of civilization. So great a force is it in changing of sex, the reduction of infection, radio and telephone, and a score of other fields that scientists are beginning to wonder if it is not the single greatest force shaping our development toward the Utopia towards which all scientific achievement points.The story of the X-ray of today and tomorrow is a fabulous story of amazing accomplishment, more thrilling than the wildest tale of incredible adventures ever lived by a human being.
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Cory Doctorow
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