This print is from one of the first radiographs made by the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen (1845-1923), who discovered the electro-magnetic rays he named "x-rays" in Würzburg in November 1895. The public had also recently been introduced to long-distance communication in the form of the telegraph. Over the next few years, scientific challenges to Spiritualism arose—but then the Civil War plunged the nation into a state of fear, grief, and mourning.
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Published at: 2025-10-29 00:00:00
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