On this day in 1926 Wilhelm Falkenberg was granted the patent for Portable X-Ray Apparatus. U.S. Patent No. 1,590,929.
The object of this invention is a portable electric medical hand apparatus, in which all kinds of rays used for electro-therapeutic treatments are produced or generated including X-rays, and high frequency currents in order to allow their use with faradization, salvanisation, galvanization, cathaphoresis, electrolysis, caustic treatments, endoscopy, light and thermos-therapeutics and also with the generation of ozone etc.