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 Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Germany and Switzerland.^[1] In the UK, they were known as Pedoscopes, after the company based in St. Albans that manufactured them.^[2] An example can be seen at the Science Museum, London.^[3] At the beginning of the 1930s, Bally was the first company to import pedoscopes into Switzerland from the UK.