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computerlove
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11 May 2008, 1:37 pm

Contains real radium!

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11 May 2008, 1:44 pm

I saw those in Popular Science or something, I'd really like one...or I'd at least like to take a peek inside.



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11 May 2008, 1:52 pm

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11 May 2008, 2:56 pm

I like how they say atoms are "miniature worlds". Yay for science.
There was something else like this too from then, but it more of a motion picture box... Can't recall the name of it, but it was radioactive. Probably had radium in it too.

Actually looking it up, a lot of things had radium in them in the early 20th century.


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11 May 2008, 3:11 pm

There was a time shoe stores had fluoroscopes for fitting shoes
http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/shoe ... r/shoe.htm