January 30 1915 x rays were used for medical operations within a couple of months after they were discovered by.
Mobile x ray machines world war 1.
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.
Curie launched a project to establish a radiological service for the french army and bring x ray machines nearer to the battlefield.
X rays at war 1915.
At the outbreak of world war i in august 1914 many hospitals in many countries already had x ray machines.
Reported in scientific american this week in world war i.
She obtained vehicles that could be converted into mobile x ray units and worked with x ray equipment.
Importance to ww1 the x ray machine was important to the war because the x ray would provide a fast diagnosis of the patient so they could be treated much faster than without the x ray machine and it decreased the amount of troops dying of not being treated.