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Skelch :
Oh and as for Shoe salesmen becoming xray technicians, NO THEY DID NOT! The most advanced ones had 3 levels and timers that would last up to 20 seconds. This is hardly what a technologist had to do. Back then as a technologist you had to measure a patient, then make decisions about how much time you needed to get the proper exposure, done in fractions of seconds. Labeled (S) for seconds, then determine the best milliamperage of electrcity (mA) you would multiply the time in Seconds to the milliamps to come up with the (MaS) setting. Then they have to determine how much Kilovolts (shoe xray macines were set to about 50 kv.) The xray machines in hospitals would go from 40 to 200 kv. Both the MaS and kilovolts have to be right to make a good xray. Techs also need to know if they need a grid or buckey and all kinds of factors. Then they had to know how to develop the films. And no doctors were preforming xrays. Xrays were discovered and first used in 1895, xray techs started doing xrays by 1896. Doctors are lazy 😁 Sorry I am tired of the world thinking doctors do xrays or that a trained monkey can do them. Much of what techs do today is easier with photo timers that set the time (S) for you automatically, but hands and feet and other exams, are still done manually. We use milliseconds measurements now instead of fractions, I have used older fraction-timed machines 🧐 No fun, too much thinking for that. No shoe sales man "became an xray technician, because he could push a button and do a timed flouroscopic foot xray. Whew, I feel so much better now. If you read this to the end, God bless you.
2025-08-09 21:53:10
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GrimmLowz :
Wait why is Q from impractical jokers here??
2025-08-03 15:03:38
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Lili Marlene :
In my seventies. I remember this machine in our local shoe store. My mother wouldn’t let us use it because she didn’t think it was necessary. Good choice.
2025-08-03 21:18:25
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mommyantics :
meanwhile I still struggle to get my insurance to cover getting an x-ray on my knee
2025-08-04 04:26:41
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pointillistphotography :
Now do painting radium on watch dials with paint brushes so the numbers glow in the dark.
2025-08-04 12:41:57
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Mary Rose :
My mom talked about this. She loved this as a mid
2025-08-04 00:26:52
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Matt :
Thank you, Henry Winkler.
2025-08-03 18:56:49
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Susan :
I remember being told of these machines when I was in nuc med school. It was an historical example of how not to use radiation 😳 (thank goodness for regulations, eventually!)
2025-08-04 17:23:42
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Finalmike :
Why is Henry Winkler in this??
2025-08-03 19:07:41
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Jess Tore :
i have never heard of this...
2025-08-03 16:43:52
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Spaceballer :
how much were they charging for shoes to be able to afford an x-ray machine?
2025-08-03 17:49:11
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Lili 🇺🇸 - 🇫🇷 :
My oldest sister had her feet frayed for shoes.
2025-08-03 23:28:15
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Beau :
My dentist hasn't been giving me the lead aprin...i need to ask for that next time. 😢
2025-08-04 10:44:32
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himynameisgir :
they now say you dont have to wear the vest at the dentist
2025-08-04 02:33:45
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Alahop777 :
Years ago watched a story on these with mom and she recalled doing this as a child. 😬
2025-08-04 01:30:47
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MightyTim :
Shoe stores don't even measure your feet anymore.
2025-08-03 17:49:28
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Colin :
it's true! but that thing with the scale is better
2025-09-23 14:35:15
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Skelch :
They did not know you need protection.
2025-08-04 04:35:21
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Andrea Oleyar-Fry :
And this was for sizing?
2025-08-04 00:33:19
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Theresa Checchia :
Wow in shoes stores this os crazy
2025-08-03 23:27:28
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ForrestDallasTX 🏳️🌈 :
I worked in a shoe store that opened its doors in 1901 and on the third floor storage area, sat that machine. I always wondered what it would be like to have used it. it was very fascinating.
2025-08-03 21:10:58
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thebridgetburnstein :
I remember those! We had them in the 60’s too!
2025-08-03 23:30:26
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Bibliophilekyle :
Would have preferred this on drunk history
2025-08-04 07:36:02
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Andydrew217 :
Higginbothams in Cross Plains texas still has one, used to be a funeral home/hardware store…lol built in 1914, it still has lots of original display items and such
2025-08-03 15:07:08
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Christopher Nardone :
hi fonz
2025-08-03 14:50:30
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