In 1957 the State of Pennsylvania became the first jurisdiction to ban the use of shoe fitting fluoroscopes.

In 1957, Pennsylvania became the first state to ban the use of the shoe-fitting fluoroscopes.

Smallish wooden podiums housing radioactive material for casual-foot X-rays, shoe-fitting fluoroscopes stared showing up in shoe stores around the 1920s.

The X-ray Shoe Fitter Corporation of Milwaukee Wisconsin, which made the Adrian and Simplex lines, and the Pedoscope Company of St. Albans in the U.K, were the two largest manufacturers of shoe fitting fluoroscopes.