By: HILOBROW

Diorama of men mining radium…

By: Aleksei Gastev

“Now we all start in at once to the minute.”

By: HILOBROW

“My Mother was Polish”

By: Irene Clyde

“The messenger got hold of the wrong ring, somehow…”

By: Lee Wilson Dodd

“Science has set free / The Energy of the Atom and harnessed it…”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“The Shining One makes no bargains.”

By: HILOBROW

“Extracting radium from pitchblend.”

By: Joshua Glenn

SF-adjacent art from the Radium Age’s year 17

By: D.H. Lawrence

“This is the machine incarnate…”

By: HILOBROW

Radium Treasure

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“The sentinels of the Shining One are faithful to their duty.”

By: HILOBROW

Ernest Rutherford

By: Hugh MacDiarmid

“Crowded / With dark incipient crystal growths…”

By: HILOBROW

“Radium Bomb”

By: Irene Clyde

“A being who was, for all I could tell, a phantom of the brain…”