Fluoroscope
date: label: Date made
content: 1945 - 1959
label: associated dates
content: 1987 12 11 / 1987 12 11
notes: label: Description
content: William Roentgen discovered X-rays in November 1895, and by February 1896 the rush was on to develop fluoroscopes for seeing objects on and inside human and animal bodies. Dr. Jacob J. Lowe, managing director of the Boston Dental X-Ray Laboratory, filed a patent application for a shoe fluoroscope in 1919 and demonstrated examples at shoe retailer conventions soon thereafter. Lowe received his patent in 1927 and assigned the rights to the Adrian Corp., a Milwaukee firm that had begun making machines of this sort in 1922. An inscription on the front of this example reads “Adrian Special / M. B. ADRIAN AND SONS X-RAY COMPANY / MILWAUKEE, WIS.”
label: Description
content: Ref: J. J. Lowe, “Method and Means for Visually Determining the Fit of Footwear,” U.S. Patent 1,614,988 (Jan. 18, 1927), assigned to The Adrian Corp. Inc., of Milwaukee.
label: Description
content: Jacalyn Duffin and Charles R. R. Hayter, “Baring the Sole: The Rise and Fall of the Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope,” <i>ISIS</i> 91 (2000): 260-282.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Richard D. Lee
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0470.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0470
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0470.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fluoroscope
label: Object Name
content: x-ray machine, fluoroscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, walnut (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, lead (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic, lucite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 97.5 cm x 61.5 cm x 95 cm; 38 3/8 in x 24 3/16 in x 37 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 in x 32 in x 77 in; 137.16 cm x 81.28 cm x 195.58 cm