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: Lee Wilson Dodd

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

By: HILOBROW

“Extracting radium from pitchblend.”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“This is the machine incarnate…”

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Radium Treasure

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Ernest Rutherford

By: Hugh MacDiarmid

“Crowded / With dark incipient crystal growths…”

By: HILOBROW

“Radium Bomb”

By: T. S. Eliot

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

By: HILOBROW

Diorama of radium refining laboratory

By: W. H. Auden

“He walks out briskly to infect a city…”

By: HILOBROW

Diorama of radium being loaded onto airplane

By: HILOBROW

“Marie Curie discovered radium…”