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  2. Shoe-fitting fluoroscope - Wikipedia

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    This machine was manufactured by Adrian Shoe Fitter, Inc. circa 1938 and used in a Washington, D.C., shoe store. Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, also sold under the names X-ray Shoe Fitter, Pedoscope and Foot-o-scope, were X-ray fluoroscope machines installed in shoe stores from the 1920s until about the 1970s in the United States, Canada, United ...

  3. Proportional counter - Wikipedia

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    The proportional counter is a type of gaseous ionization detector device used to measure particles of ionizing radiation.The key feature is its ability to measure the energy of incident radiation, by producing a detector output pulse that is proportional to the radiation energy absorbed by the detector due to an ionizing event; hence the detector's name.

  4. List of defunct department stores of the United States

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    F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...

  5. Nagy Brothers Shoe Repair - Wikipedia

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    Nagy Brothers Shoe Repair is a historic building in the Hungarian Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The one-story structure was built in 1932 in a vernacular commercial style. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The building was historically used as a shoe repair shop and gas station.

  6. Endicott Johnson Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company ("E-J") was a prosperous manufacturer of shoes based in New York's Southern Tier, with factories mostly located in the area's Triple Cities of Binghamton, Johnson City, and Endicott. An estimated 20,000 people worked in the company's factories by the 1920s, and an even greater number worked there during the ...

  7. Soft X-ray microscopy - Wikipedia

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    Here the X-rays are focused to a point and the sample is mechanically scanned through the produced focal spot. At each point the transmitted X-rays are recorded with a detector such as a proportional counter or an avalanche photodiode. This type of Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope (STXM) was first developed by researchers at Stony Brook ...

  8. Discover Congers, from historic buildings to outdoor spaces - AOL

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    Congers Station was built in 1890 for the Jersey City to Albany Railway Company Congers stop. The railroad was granted easement rights from land owners Abraham and Mary Conger.

  9. Hilger & Watts - Wikipedia

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    The control electronics for a Hilger and Watts Y290 four-circle X-ray diffractometer including a PDP-8 minicomputer. Close-up of the crystal mounted on a Hilger and Watts Y290 diffractometer. Amongst other devices, the Camden location produced PDP-8 computer-driven X-ray diffractometers in the mid-late 1960s, one of which is believed to be ...