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Taking the X out of X-Rays (Dr. William Coolidge, 1940)

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Sponsored by General Electric, this is a short film featuring Dr. William Coolidge (circa 1940), the inventor of the Coolidge X-ray tube, also called hot cathode tube. He discusses medical imaging and demystifies X-rays.

Update: Now also includes Hungarian captions, thanks to Alvancsodi.

Original video source is from the Prelinger Archives:

https://archive.org/details/Takingth1940

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