In 1894 Nikola Tesla took the very first "shadow graphs" of Mark Twain.

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In 1894 Nikola Tesla took the very first "shadow graphs" of Mark Twain. Here is one of Mark Twain's foot. Tesla sent his images to Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, which Wilhelm Röntgen later congratulated Tesla for. Shortly after, Roentgen published his discovery of the "X-Ray" on November 8, 1895. History says on Nov. 8, 1895 Röntgen "stumbled" upon the discovery of X-Rays, for which he was later awarded the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In keeping with his will, Röntgen had all his personal and scientific correspondence destroyed upon his death. Röntgen also did not take patents out on his discoveries, and donated the money for his Nobel prize to the University of Würzburg.
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."- Mark Twain