Some of the fascinating things we did with the radioactive element, including using it as a "wonderful" nightlight, since it "glows with a weird light in a dark room." Radium was discovered by Marie ...

Mrs. Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California’s Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with “a can of beans, a loaf of ...

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Two years ago a ‘radium clock’ was constructed for the Chicago Radium Institute similar to the original one described by Strutt (Phil. Mag., 1903). Three milligrams of radium sulphate, contained in a ...

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Outside Chicago and just past Joliet, in the tiny town of Ottawa, Ill., Chicago's Radium Dial Company was a lucrative employer of women factory workers in the 1920s and 1930. Housed in a former high ...

Step into the top-secret U.S. government laboratory where American scientists created the atomic bomb in 1945. Sculptor Jim Sanborn spent five years collecting chunks of uranium, radiation detectors, ...

No special difficulty has been experienced in showing that the β particles (electrons), expelled from radium, carry with them a negative charge of electricity. The positive charge left behind on the ...