Many of the greatest scientific discoveries are eventually changed and adapted for more practical and widespread use. Since its discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, the use of the X-ray has become ...

How do you tell if a shoe is a good fit? Take a short walk? Squeeze the front-end with your fingers to make sure there is space for your toes? What about a dangerous, 20-second blast of unshielded ...

If you were born anywhere between 1920 and about 1950, you probably recall an odd-looking cabinet that once lured customers into shoe stores across the country. The shoe-fitting fluoroscope used ...

Flouroscope images courtesy of Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Being fitted for a new pair of shoes shouldn't be a health hazard, but in my youth it could be. Shoe shops in the 1950s (and it has to ...

IT IS now common practice in many shoe stores and shoe departments of department stores to supplement usual shoe-fitting methods by the use of fluoroscopes known as x-ray shoe fitters. Because this ...

Macquarie Street specialists warned parents yesterday not to let their children use X-ray shoe-fitting machines. Brochure for X-ray shoe fitting machine, late 1940s. Such machines could do children ...