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German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845 - 1923), who in 1895 discovered the electromagnetic rays which he called X-rays. (Photo by Nicola Perscheid/Getty Images)
FRANCE - APRIL 26: Coloured lithograph, signed Duzol. The audience are watching the film, 'L'Arroseur Arrose', in which a mischievous boy steps off a hose-pipe when the gardener examines the nozzle of his hose to see why the water has stopped. Auguste Lumiere (1862-1954) and his brother Louis (1865-1948) invented the 'Cinematographe', in 1895. This was the first machine to project images onto a screen. In the same year, they built the first cinema in Lyons, France, and by December they had successfully hosted their first show to a paying audience in Paris. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)
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