Frank Austin

Events

1

Episodes

3

Years

1896

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Frank Austin, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

1. Röntgen's X-ray discovery is announced and the first X-ray photographs follow, January 1896

   1896

   Role: Researcher

   1. 1January 1896 · Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth Tube Testing

      Frank Austin tested discharge tubes at Dartmouth College in January 1896, identifying the Puluj tube as the source.

   2. 25 January 1896 · AustriaAustrian Newspaper Announcement

      An Austrian newspaper reported Röntgen's discovery of a new type of radiation on 5 January 1896.

   3. 311 January 1896 · Birmingham, EnglandFirst Clinical Radiograph

      John Hall-Edwards performed the first clinical X-ray in Birmingham on 11 January 1896.

Sources

1. X-ray Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-18