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- Shoe-fitting Fluoroscope, circa 1936 - Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes were first developed in 1919 and were common in shoe stores until the late 1950s. These fluoroscopes produced real-time, moving radiographs-- comparable to X-ray movies. Customers used the viewfinder at the top to see how shoes fit them while placing their feet in the X-ray chamber below. Many fluoroscopes exposed users to unhealthy doses of radiation.
- circa 1936
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Shoe-fitting Fluoroscope, circa 1936
Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes were first developed in 1919 and were common in shoe stores until the late 1950s. These fluoroscopes produced real-time, moving radiographs-- comparable to X-ray movies. Customers used the viewfinder at the top to see how shoes fit them while placing their feet in the X-ray chamber below. Many fluoroscopes exposed users to unhealthy doses of radiation.