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Tag Archives: x-ray technology

Forty years of x-ray vision in Port Angeles, WA

If the shoe fits, x-ray vision will tell you. At least, it did in Port Angeles, Washington – and other towns across North America – in the early- to mid-1900s, when any shoe store worth its salt had a contraption called the shoe-fitting fluoroscope somewhere on its sales floor. A waist-high box topped with eyepieces,…

June 26, 2018 in Reports from the Road, Washington.

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