1897 — William Morton produces the first full-length x-ray of a living human body.

• The first practical subway is completed in Boston.
• Bram Stoker, writer, publishes Dracula, a classic gothic horror tale about the mysterious vampire Count Dracula.
• Sigmund Freud defines the “Oedipus complex” and suggests that dreams play an important psychological role.
• America’s first hospital for crippled children opens in St. Paul, Minn.