His research, which ranged from electricity to astronomy, produced the first X-ray image and experimented with Röntgen rays.

On January 27, 1896, Wright produced an X-ray photograph, barely a month after Wilhelm Röntgen's seminal paper On A New Kind Of Rays was published on December 28, 1895.

[1] In 1896, Wright had been experimenting with Crookes tube of spherical shape to generate long exposure x-ray photographs.

He believed the cathode rays exuded in the sphere were dynamically different from those discovered by Philipp Lenard only a year earlier.

[12] For the future, Wright intended to research aluminum's behavior under an x-ray and its effect paired with an electric current.

Wright saw the possibility of using the rays for surgical and medical fields, predicting the rise of x-ray technology.