Many of the greatest scientific discoveries are eventually changed and adapted for more practical and widespread use. Since its discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, the use of the X-ray has become ...

Thanks to reporter Ann Wlazelek for her July 24 story about her mother and the shoe X-ray machines. I remember those machines. I’ve sometimes wondered just how bad they were once we knew they were bad ...

Macquarie Street specialists warned parents yesterday not to let their children use X-ray shoe-fitting machines. Brochure for X-ray shoe fitting machine, late 1940s. Such machines could do children ...