Eddy Clifford Jerman was an American inventor and an early expert in the techniques of medical radiography.
16 Facts About Eddy Jerman
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Eddy Jerman served as an examiner during the initial efforts to license personnel who took X-rays.
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Eddy Jerman has been referred to as "the father of radiography".
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Eddy Jerman was born on November 21,1865, in Ripley County, Indiana.
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Eddy Jerman attended Franklin College in Indiana, but experienced health problems in his last year and was unable to finish his studies.
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Eddy Jerman became the shop foreman there and then created the Jerman Electric Company.
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Eddy Jerman's device was the only one available that was large enough to create X-rays.
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When Eddy Jerman created his first X-ray image, he created an image of his own hand.
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Eddy Jerman described taping his hand down with electrical tape and exposing the hand to the radiation for 30 minutes.
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Eddy Jerman worked closely with Victor Electric Company in the manufacture of his machines.
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Eddy Jerman thought that insufficient attention had been paid to standardizing radiographic technique in the years since the discovery of X-ray.
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About two years later, Eddy Jerman became the head of the education division at Victor Electric Company.
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Eddy Jerman wrote Modern X-ray Technic, the first textbook of radiographic techniques.
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Eddy Jerman was a founder of the American Association of Radiological Technicians.
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Eddy Jerman served as the examiner for the first 1,000 candidates for credentialing by the American Registry of X-Ray Technicians.
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Late in his life, Eddy Jerman became interested in the application of X-rays to fields like botany, zoology and paleontology.