By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“The building’s ground-plan bore a fanciful resemblance to the shape of a flat-iron.”

By: Joshua Glenn

SF-adjacent art from the Radium Age’s year 16

By: T. S. Eliot

“When the human engine waits / Like a taxi throbbing waiting…”

By: HILOBROW

Diorama of radium refining laboratory

By: Irene Clyde

The thief drew a heavy sword, and aimed a blow at the other…

By: W. H. Auden

“He walks out briskly to infect a city…”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“A woman cannot be moved about like a piece of furniture.”

By: HILOBROW

Diorama of radium being loaded onto airplane

By: HILOBROW

“Marie Curie discovered radium…”

By: Gertrude Stein

“An arrangement in a system to pointing…”

By: Irene Clyde

I had never learnt the art of fencing, but I was not unfamiliar with the feel of a sword.

By: Joshua Glenn

SF-adjacent art from the Radium Age’s year 15

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

Men had tamed the lightning and bade it speak their will.

By: Aleksei Kruchenykh

“I cooked my brain on an iron rod…”

By: Amy Lowell

“This man is like a mechanical toy…”