As many of our followers on social media and the web have noticed, we launched the “JPI On The Map” campaign back in July of this year. In that time, we’ve shared more than 5 dozen updates in which we discussed some of our latest system implementations across the country (even little Rhody and Puerto Rico too!). We want to thank our customers on the map and our followers for helping spread the word about JPI.

Since this campaign has been successful in raising awareness of JPI’s growing product portfolio and geographic footprint, we are introducing “Remember Wednesday,” a campaign to spark nostalgia, educate, and even bring some comic relief.

Remember when Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen stumbled upon the potential of “X-rays” while tinkering with cathode instruments? Although much of his work involved cathode rays, Röntgen is credited with the discovery of the then new and different rays in 1895. During that period of time, Röntgen was studying the passage of an electric current through a gas of extremely low pressure. In November 1895, Röntgen found that, if the discharge tube was enclosed in a sealed, thick black carton to exclude all light, and if he worked in a dark room, a paper plate covered on one side with barium platinocyanide Ba[Pt(CN)4] placed in the path of the rays became fluorescent even when it was as far as two meters from the discharge tube.

Röntgen later found that objects of varied thickness placed in the path of the rays showed variable transparency to them when recorded on a photographic plate. Using his wife as a guinea pig, he steadied one of her hands in the path of the rays over a photographic plate. Röntgen was able to see shadows created by her hand along with the ring she was wearing. As legend has it, this was the first x-ray ever taken. That was 1895. We have certainly come a long way!