Portable Tire X-Rayer Shows Nails and Cuts (May, 1939)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1939
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1939
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Portable Tire X-Rayer Shows Nails and Cuts
AUTOMOBILE tires are X-rayed for hidden nails, bruises, and similar dangers by the novel portable apparatus pictured at the left. Introduced by Firestone engineers, the X-ray unit is rolled under a jacked-up wheel, and the tire is viewed section by section, just as a physician examines the body of a patient with a fluoroscope. In an experimental test of 2,000 automobile tires with the apparatus, experts discovered 2,049 nails and tacks, 2,099 pieces of glass, and 2,197 rocks and pebbles lodged in the tread or body.
Holy Moses, that’s beyond scary.
Comment by Jim Dunn — May 15, 2007 @ 5:23 am
Wow looks really small and portable. =/ NOT ! lol
Comment by JDk1981 — July 14, 2008 @ 3:00 am
Would you know if this machine was ever produced?
There wouldn’t be a modern equivalent?
Thanks.
Comment by Chris Lord — July 13, 2009 @ 8:22 am