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One of these machines was featured in the film "Billion Dollar Brain", featuring Michael Cain as agent Harry Palmer. Palmer is called on to deliver a package - a thermos - to someone and x-rays it with one of these things in a department store to see what's inside. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Darren Ingram <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There was some shoe machine at Clarkes in the 70s too. Don't recall if it was a X RAY. It had some sliding mechanism in the foot bit. I was a kid, disinterested in such stuff at so young an age. > > Darren > > On 15 aug 2012, at 12:36, Chris J Brady <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> In then UK when I was a kid - say in the 1950s - I think it was Clarkes - many shoe shops had an x-ray machine into which kids could put their feet to see what size shoes they needed. When the dangers of x-rays became realised they were swiftly removed. CJB. >> >> --- On Wed, 15/8/12, Roger Kulp <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> From: Roger Kulp <[log in to unmask]> >>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] X-rays and sheet music >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Date: Wednesday, 15 August, 2012, 5:00 >>> Coin operated x-ray machine c1900 >>> . The glass case contains the x-ray tube and high voltage >>> coil. stick >>> you hand in the slot about and >>> view your hand bones through the double >>> eyepiece on top >>> >>> http://www.underthepier.com/17_novelty_machines.htm >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: "[log in to unmask]" >>> <[log in to unmask]> >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:54 PM >>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] X-rays and sheet music >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> For those interested in the subject, there will >>> soon appear a curious >>> article on the origin of X-rays and the role of recorded >>> music (instrumental >>> and lyrics). Suggestions are always welcome. Yes, even >>> coin-op versions, >>> ca. 1896. >>> >>> Allen K. >>> _www.phonobooks.com_ (http://www.phonobooks.com) >>>