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Stereoscopic X – ray plate viewing apparatus Made: Around 1920 Maker: Victor X-ray Corporation, Chicago USDescription
An exhaustive search has found only one other example of this equipment which is in the UK science museum. 3-D viewing helps give visual depth to 2-D X ray plates. It makes reading an X ray easier. The machine was developed by the Victor X-ray Corporation of Chicago US and was patented in 1911. It has two backlit intensifier screens and uses mirrors to view X-ray images of the body.
It is thought to have been used at the Resthaven Sanitarium which was equipped in 1921 with the most modern X-Ray and fluoroscopy equipment.