advertisingpics:X-ray shoe fitting (1934)Source: reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/cwk6q4/xra
advertisingpics:X-ray shoe fitting (1934)Source: https://reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/cwk6q4/xray_shoe_fitting_1934/Oh these things! They’re so much worse than they sound! And they sound… bad?Nowadays when you think of an X-ray you think of a pulse of X-rays that produces an image and boom, that’s a chunk of your radiation exposure for the year and we’re all mostly okay with it. Well, there IS another verison of this, called the Fluoroscope, which is an X-ray video camera, which means it needs to provide a continuous stream of X-rays non stop for however long it’s running.What I’m saying is, X-ray shoe fitting machines were fluroscopes run by random fuckers in shoe stores. They deliver WAY more X-rays than you would see in any sane modern machine. Fluoroscopes are only used for medicine in particularly special cases in the modern day where an X-ray video is needed, because it exposes your target to a truly preposterous amount of radiation compared to other methods. The most common place most people woudl find a fluroscope nowadays is probably a bag-checking X-ray machine.Fortunately for the people who used this, feet are basically the most X-ray resistant part of the body on account of there not being much going on down there, but it’s still not, like, GOOD for you.We eventually stopped using X-ray shoe-fitting sometime in the 30’s or 40’s, although I’m not sure because thankfully I wasn’t alive for when we were just throwing radiation at the wall and seeing what stuck. (Instead, MY generation’s public health disasters are mostly fossil-fuel related!) -- source link
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