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.
Mobile x ray machines world war 1.
Lasting effects helped develop the idea for our modern x ray machines helped discover that x rays were harmful since it was believed otherwise before the people getting x rays and setting them up were effected led the way to the portable x ray machine mri s ct scans etc.
She obtained vehicles that could be converted into mobile x ray units and worked with x ray equipment.
By the end of the war she had built 20 mobile units and some 200 permanent posts.
January 30 1915 x rays were used for medical operations within a couple of months after they were discovered by.
Reported in scientific american this week in world war i.
During world war i the scientist invented a mobile x ray unit called a little curie and trained 150 women to operate it marie curie in one of her mobile x ray units in october 1917 eve.
X rays at war 1915.