Month: December 2011

X-Ray Machine 1

The goal of this project was to build an inexpensive portable x-ray machine, since such a device didn’t seem to exist! Odd, since such a machine could prove…

Radiation Safety

If you intend to copy my x-ray experiments, let’s be safe now, shall we? Nonionizing radiation, the stuff of microwave, infrared and visible light doesn’t have the energy…

Coolidge Tubes

Invented in 1913 by William D. Coolidge, the Coolidge tube is by far the most popular method used to generate x-rays. Essentially it’s just a thermionic diode, but…

Wire Loss Calculator

Electricity is useless without a way to move it around, so in order to accomplish that task people invented the wire. A wire is nothing more than a conductor…