Radium was discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie, and despite the deeply saddening case of the Radium Girls (part of humanity’s history with radiation) being settled unhappily in 1928, it ...

Eighteen months ago, after hundreds of drinks of the radium tonic, he began having pains in his jaw, severe headaches. Dr. Joseph Manning Steiner, Manhattan x-ray specialist who had seen several ...

Radium's use in clocks and watches was banned by the UK Radioactive Substances Act of 1960, enforced in 1963. From the Daily Herald Archive, a collection of over three million photographs.

As Mr. Dunthorne, a British novelist and poet, tells us in his memoir “Children of Radium,” his German-Jewish great-grandfather, Siegfried Merzbacher, had created it.

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, ...

The 1928 death from radiation poisoning of one of the most prominent users of Radithor helped bring about the end of the radium fad. The bottle itself still emits very slight traces of radiation ...

Tests show higher-than-normal radium levels in Colorado's Perry Park 02:43. Neighbors in a Douglas County community are worried about the safety of their drinking water.

Cashing in on the radium fad of the early 20th century, pharmacist Alexis Moussalli developed Tho-Radia, cosmetics containing ...

There is radium in the earth, and radium in disintegrating gives out heat. Therefore a once molten globe will cool down more slowly than if it contained no such independent source of heat.

radium | Park bench - Benches from mmcité. Steel structure treated with zinc coating and powder coating. Seat made of wooden lamellas or HPL. Easily anchored ...

EXPERIMENTS on which I have been engaged for the past six years have until now failed to establish the production of radium from uranium. With carefully purified uranium salts, using considerable ...