In 1892, Anthony Foster McKissick, the first director of Auburn’s first electrical engineering laboratory, helped lay the foundation for Auburn football as the Tigers’ first center. Four years later, he helped do the same for a scientific breakthrough that changed the world.
At first, he almost didn’t believe it himself.
Brief, tantalizing tales about what Wilhelm Röntgen saw in his Würzburg laboratory on Nov. 8, 1895 began popping up across the Atlantic the first week of January 1896.
There had been a blurb in the Sunday, Feb. 2 edition of the Atlanta Constitution, and McKissick had laughed.