modern mechanix article from 1931.

[treserious]

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009...ng_vac_tubes_inc_0.jpg&Qiv=thumbs&Qis=XL#qdig

 

[jaymanaa]

Man that was cool. I love looking at old magazines like that. I wonder how many folks got cancer from the "Fever" machine?

 

[chillwolf]

If only they could see how advanced the technology is now!

 

[toxcrusadr]

Whoa! Microwave me, Doc!

 

[jaymanaa]

I saw a deal on TV once where a whole bunch of kids got "sterilized" by a foot X-Ray machine. It was more or less a sales gimmick back when X-Rays first got invented. The kid would stand on/in the machine and it would X-Ray his foot to get a proper fitting shoe. The X-Rays then were way more powerful than they ever needed to be, and apparently more than their feet got the treatment.:sigh:

 

[toxcrusadr]

Ouch!

 

[dokblues]

Yes and the worst part is I remember one of those machines in the small town I grew up in. They didn`t use it but it sure was a great converstaion piece!

 

[mhardy6647]

X-rays were "invented" (discovered) by Roentgen in the 1880s. I think the foot X-ray machines came rather later than that.

 

[skippy_ps]

The foot ex-ray machines have been discussed before. I'm old enough to have seen these and stuck my feet in one. From Wiki:

Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, also Pedoscopes, were x-ray flouroscope machines installed in shoe stores from as early as the 1920s until about the 1960s in the United States, by which time they had been prohibited and into the mid-1970s in the United Kingdom

Murray

 

[Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

Yep, our Red Goose Shoe Store had one of those things.

 

[hypertone]

I wonder if people will laugh at today's technology 80 years from now?

 

[MelodyMaster]

Whoa! Microwave me, Doc!

Actually the frequency wasn't high enough for the contemporary definition of "Microwave." That was to wait for the development of the Magnetron, a self-generating form of the Thyratron, that was actually patented in 1947 as a means of high-speed cooking. It's amazing that it took so long to develop microwave cooking, since they did realize in 1931 that the thyratron was invisibly heating nearby objects. Technically, microwave technology could have been developed in 1932, but no one suspected it had any practical application. However, considering that 1947 Microwave cookers were water-cooled behemoths, imagine what a 1932 machine would have looked like!

 

[Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

I wonder if people will laugh at today's technology 80 years from now?

I'm laughing at it now! :lmao: