 At the beginning of the 1930s, Bally was the first company to import pedoscopes into Switzerland from the UK.In the second half of the 20th century, growing awareness of radiation hazards and increasingly stringent regulations forced their gradual phasing out.A shoe-fitting fluoroscope was a metal construction covered in finished wood, approximately high in the shape of short column, with a ledge with an opening where the child (or the adult customer) would then place his or her feet in the opening provided and while remaining in a standing position, look through a viewing porthole at the top of the fluoroscope down at the x-ray view of the feet and shoes.