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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 174080" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)">Vintage Shoe-Fitting X-Ray Machines Will Zap Your Feet</span></span></em></strong></span></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2010/11/shoe.ray_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)">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 x-rays? If you were buying shoes in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, it's likely that you regularly inserted a tootsie into one of these death-rays.</span></span></span></em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><em>The wooden cabinets, possibly first built by a Clarence Karrer in Milwaukee in 1924, had the x-ray source in the base, and it would fire upwards through your foot and shoe. Due to a lack of any kind of shielding, it wouldn't stop there: the radiation would shoot right up into your baby-maker, clearly a perilous occurrence.</em></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><em>The machine, called a "Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope" put out 50 kv from its x-ray tube, which - according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiographic_equipment" target="_blank">Wikipedia's figures</a> for today's machines, isn't too bad:</em></span></span></span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><em>In medical radiography voltage from 20 kV in mammography up to 150 kV for chest radiography are used for diagnostic. Energy can go up to 250 kV for radiotherapy applications.</em></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><em>The problem was repeat exposure. While it was recommended that children not be subjected to more than 12 doses a year, there was no such luck for shoe-store employees. According to the article Shoe-fitting with x-ray in National Safety News 62 by H. Bavley (1950), store clerks would put their hands into the beam to squeeze shoes during fitting. Worse still was the fate of a poor shoe model, "who received such a serious radiation burn that her leg had to be amputated."</em></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)">Thank God there's nothing this dangerous around today. Like, you know, full-body backscatter x-ray machines in airports.</span></span></span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Opmmur, post: 174080, member: 13"] [SIZE=7][B][I][FONT=arial][COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)]Vintage Shoe-Fitting X-Ray Machines Will Zap Your Feet[/COLOR][/FONT][/I][/B][/SIZE] [IMG]https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2010/11/shoe.ray_.jpg[/IMG] [I][SIZE=5][FONT=arial][COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)]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 x-rays? If you were buying shoes in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, it's likely that you regularly inserted a tootsie into one of these death-rays.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=5][FONT=arial][COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][I]The wooden cabinets, possibly first built by a Clarence Karrer in Milwaukee in 1924, had the x-ray source in the base, and it would fire upwards through your foot and shoe. Due to a lack of any kind of shielding, it wouldn't stop there: the radiation would shoot right up into your baby-maker, clearly a perilous occurrence.[/I][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=arial][COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][I]The machine, called a "Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope" put out 50 kv from its x-ray tube, which - according to [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiographic_equipment']Wikipedia's figures[/URL] for today's machines, isn't too bad:[/I][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=5][FONT=arial][COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][I]In medical radiography voltage from 20 kV in mammography up to 150 kV for chest radiography are used for diagnostic. Energy can go up to 250 kV for radiotherapy applications.[/I][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=5][FONT=arial][COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][I]The problem was repeat exposure. While it was recommended that children not be subjected to more than 12 doses a year, there was no such luck for shoe-store employees. According to the article Shoe-fitting with x-ray in National Safety News 62 by H. Bavley (1950), store clerks would put their hands into the beam to squeeze shoes during fitting. Worse still was the fate of a poor shoe model, "who received such a serious radiation burn that her leg had to be amputated."[/I][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [I][SIZE=5][FONT=arial][COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)]Thank God there's nothing this dangerous around today. Like, you know, full-body backscatter x-ray machines in airports.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I] [/QUOTE]
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