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X-Ray Specs

X-Ray Specs is a novelty item.

Also recorded as X-ray glasses.

Contents

Identity

What the record establishes about X-Ray Specs.

Papers of M H F Wilkins: data obtained from x-ray diffraction photographs of DNA samples from sepia and loligo sperm heads is dated 1957-1959 and held by Wellcome Collection. X-ray diffraction exposure referenced as "t RNA spotty rings M W spec. Film 2122" is dated November 1962 and held by Wellcome Collection. Papers of M H F Wilkins: glass slides of x-ray diffraction photographs of DNA and RNA is dated 1950-1965 and held by Wellcome Collection. Xray expt Nov 74 Melanogaster is dated November 1974-August 1976 and held by Wellcome Collection. American Naturalist 1977 is dated September-December 1976 and held by Wellcome Collection. The life cycle of the tsetse fly. is dated 1987 and held by Wellcome Collection.

Daffodils (Narcissus), x-ray is catalogued and held by Wellcome Collection. Brown long-eared bat, x-ray. is dated 2013 and held by Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection records 9 objects associated with this heading. X-Ray Specs is classified as a novelty item or toy.

Holdings and surviving copies

Mia Mayhem Gets X-Ray Specs (4 catalogued editions) (2019) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library. Chocolate Milk, X-Ray Specs and Me! EBOOK (2021) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library. X-Ray Specs and Other Vintage Ads (2023) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 9 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Digitised editions and texts

5 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Open Library.

Mia Mayhem Gets X-Ray Specs (4 catalogued editions) (2019) — Open Library. X-ray specs (2000) — Open Library. Chocolate Milk, X-Ray Specs & Me! (2021) — Open Library. X-Ray Specs and Other Vintage Ads (2023) — Open Library. Chocolate Milk, X-Ray Specs and Me! EBOOK (2021) — Open Library.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 1 scientific preprints indexed (arXiv (Cornell University)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1950Papers of M H F Wilkins: glass slides of x-ray diffraction photographs of DNA and RNA is dated 1950-1965 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  2. 1950Papers of M H F Wilkins: glass slides of x-ray diffraction photographs of DNA and RNA (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1957Papers of M H F Wilkins: data obtained from x-ray diffraction photographs of DNA samples from sepia and loligo sperm heads is dated 1957-1959 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  4. 1957Papers of M H F Wilkins: data obtained from x-ray diffraction photographs of DNA samples from sepia and loligo sperm heads (Wellcome Collection).
  5. 1962X-ray diffraction exposure referenced as "t RNA spotty rings M W spec. Film 2122" is dated November 1962 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  6. 1962X-ray diffraction exposure referenced as "t RNA spotty rings M W spec. Film 2122" (Wellcome Collection).
  7. 1974Xray expt Nov 74 Melanogaster is dated November 1974-August 1976 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  8. 1976American Naturalist 1977 (Wellcome Collection).
  9. 1977American Naturalist 1977 is dated September-December 1976 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  10. 1987The life cycle of the tsetse fly. is dated 1987 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  11. 2000X-ray specs digitised by Open Library.
  12. 2013Brown long-eared bat, x-ray. is dated 2013 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  13. 2013Brown long-eared bat, x-ray. (Wellcome Collection).
  14. 2019Mia Mayhem Gets X-Ray Specs (4 catalogued editions) (2019) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
  15. 2019Mia Mayhem Gets X-Ray Specs (4 catalogued editions) digitised by Open Library.
  16. 2021Chocolate Milk, X-Ray Specs and Me! EBOOK (2021) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
  17. 2021Chocolate Milk, X-Ray Specs & Me! digitised by Open Library.
  18. 2021Chocolate Milk, X-Ray Specs and Me! EBOOK digitised by Open Library.
  19. 2023X-Ray Specs and Other Vintage Ads (2023) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
  20. 2023X-Ray Specs and Other Vintage Ads digitised by Open Library.

Connections

Each connection was recorded deliberately, with the basis for it kept on the internal record.

Broader subject

  • novelty itemTerminology

    Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.

Sources

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  1. 1.

    arXiv, Cornell University, preprints naming “X-Ray Specs”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    No need for X-ray specs, Routledge Handbook of Crime Science, 2018

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Open Library, catalogue records for “X-Ray Specs”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    PubMed, United States National Library of Medicine, records for “X-Ray Specs”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    T-ray specs, Nature, 2003

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    X ray specs, BMJ, 2008

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  7. 7.

    X-ray specs, Materials Today, 2003

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  8. 8.

    X-ray specs, Structural Survey, 2002

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  9. 9.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 9 works naming X-Ray Specs.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  10. 10.

    “X-ray specs”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  11. 11.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q8041519: X-Ray Specs

    authority record · Unverified · Wikidata

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