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

They may sound like a forgotten '80s new wave band, but the Radium Girls were actually young female employees who were hired ...

RADIUM GIRLS tells the true story of the radium factory workers who fought against corporate corruption in 1920s New Jersey. Clock dial factories instructed the all-female workforce to lick the ...

Amelia “Mollie” Maggia was the first to die. The 19-year-old woman started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corp. in Orange, NJ, in 1917, and at first reveled in her job. It was ...

Abbe managed to obtain 150 mg of radium salts from the Curies in 1903, before the cost and demand for the element skyrocketed (ultimately depriving Curie herself of a ready supply).

Her real name is Susan Smith, but most people know her by the name “Tuesday McGowan.” “That’s the name I go by,” said McGowan, creative director of design at Radium San Francisco. “In ...

As every municipality learns and adjusts to maintaining government operations during COVID-19 outbreak measures, the Town of Monument Board of Trustees had its first virtual public meeting.

Their plight was reminiscent of the so-called Radium Girls in the United States who contracted radiation poisoning around 1917 from licking their paint-brushes to sharpen them. In Chaville, traces ...

A joint government-industry program has been established in Canada to develop a physical-chemical treatment process that reduces the radium content of uranium mining and milling effluents. Target ...

This article was originally published with the title “New Quebec Bridge Design, Fuel Economy and our Natural Resources, Does Radium Exist in the Pure State” in Scientific American Magazine Vol ...

Object Details Description This ampoule was removed from a display of objects (see 1993.0262.13) donated to the New York Academy of Medicine by Dr. Robert Abbe [b. April 13, 1851; d. March 7, 1928], a ...

Glenn noted that Radium Age sci-fi dealt a lot with evolution, a theory that was even more controversial a century ago than it is today. This gave rise to the first stories of X-men-style mutants.