X-Rays Go Public: Shoe Fitting, TB Screenings and Kitchen Fluoroscopes

Between the wars the X-ray went shopping: shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, school TB surveys, patent medicines and novelty rays — archive films from the counters.

Playlist by @birth_of_radiology

18 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. Shoe Fitting X-ray Machines - the Adrian Special Fluoroscope — Creative Electron
  2. Adrian Special Shoe Fitting Fluoroscope X-Ray Machine Teardown — Creative Electron
  3. Dangerous Machine from the Shoe Store — Wyoming State Museum
  4. X-Ray Shoe Fitter with Nile Séguin - Hilarious Histories — Canada Science and Technology Museum
  5. Who First Thought of the X-ray Shoe-Fitting Machine? — America Comes Alive
  6. Shoe Store Fluoroscope — Eugene Fournier
  7. HUMAN BEING AS SEEN IN A FLUOROSCOPE X-RAY MACHINE 1930s GERMAN FILM 74562 — PeriscopeFilm
  8. Science Matters | Episode 106 | X-ray Machines in Shoes Stores — Nine PBS
  9. First X-ray film from 1897 and other medical films. Archive film 14085 — HuntleyFilmArchives
  10. Moving X-Rays (UFA Films, Inc., 1938) — National Library of Medicine
  11. Target TB (National Tuberculosis Association, 1950) — National Library of Medicine
  12. Tuberculosis - A Ten-Thousand Year Battle - Part 2 - Extra History — Extra History
  13. Tuberculosis in the 1940's, Film 15963 — HuntleyFilmArchives
  14. X RAY SPECS,EDISON,CURE FOR BALD HEADS IN 1897 — captain kirk
  15. Stannington Sanatorium Reel 2 (1920-1930) — British Pathé
  16. The Man With The X Ray Eyes! (1938) — British Pathé
  17. X-Ray Drive (1958) — British Pathé
  18. The X-Ray Craze of 1896 — Learn Something New