Month: December 2011
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…
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…
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…
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…