Word: radiumator
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...that of Archimedes, who burned the Roman galleys in the seige of Syracuse by sun mirrors in the third Century B. C. Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith, of the College of the City of New York, says that there are but five types of rays dangerous to life: X-rays, radium rays, ultraviolet rays, ordinary heat rays, and high-frequency or radio electrical fields, in the order of length. Between the ultraviolet and the heat rays is the visible spectrum of light rays. X-rays are harmless beyond a few hundred feet at most. There is not enough radium...
...housed in the New York City Cancer Institute and is equipped with enough radium to cure 2.000 people, a room for fluoroscopy, a 200,000-volt apparatus for deep therapy, many other cancer-curing devices...
...Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., at the opening ceremony, said: "We are going to conquer cancer and rid the world of it, regardless of the cost." He declared that he did not know whether the cure would be effected through a serum or radium. His predictions were evidently for the former, for he declared that medicine could cure the ills of the nation?Congress, morons, lunatics, Harry Thaw and newspaper headlines...
...Wilson-Shimizu apparatus in a dark room, where may be seen alpha particles flying off from atoms of radium at 20,000 miles a second...
...prime of life, April 19, 1906, by a Paris truck ?one of the most irreparable and unnecessary losses ever suffered by science. Madame Curie struggled on with her two small daughters, and continued their great work until, in 1910, she isolated the mysterious white metal of radium itself. That her own achievements were as great as her husband's was attested by the Nobel Award in Chemistry (1911) to her alone, eight years after the Physics Prize had been given jointly to Becquerel, Pierre Curie and herself. The Sorbonne appointed her to the chair left vacant by Pierre?...