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1853 S. Highley in Trans. Microsc. Soc. 1 180 Photography (light-drawing) and Heliography (sun-drawing) seem therefore to be inappropriate terms... I would venture to suggest that the term Actinography would appear to be most correct.

1881 Science 5 Feb. 53/1 Its action is both chemical and vital, operating on the sensitive silver in photography (which more properly may be termed actinography).

1896 N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 376 The term photography here would be the worst of misnomers, and, such a word as ‘actinography’ is preferable.

1896 J. G. Hibben Inductive Logic xx. 327 Should the report of this discovery (Röntgen's) be confirmed, we cannot fail..to predict a development of the new field of actinography that may prove of greater importance than photography.

1919 Science 9 May 447/1 Mr. and Mrs. William Fitzhugh have given $12,000 to the medical school of Stanford University for the purchase of one gram of radium, for use in the actinography department of the University Hospital.

1948 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 35 337 Various attempts have been made..to record fluoroscopic phenomena by means of phototubes. The first of these..was unsuccessful, while the second attempt, by Heckmann in 1937 (actinography), was also soon abandoned.

1993 R. R. Mould Cent. X-rays & Radioactivity in Med. (ed. 2) iv. 37/2 There was also a lively correspondence on the proposal for the ‘new’ name radiography... By February 1898 the terminology problem was still not settled and diagraphy, diascopy, actinography, skiametry and radiometry were also proposed.

2002 Energy 27 950 The accuracy of Robitzch-type actinography data is 20%.