The story of Pittsburgh: Radium

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623226

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239786

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Radium

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 7

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1921

Scope:: [ca. 18] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Radium

Collection:: Economics Books

The Story of Pittsburgh RADIUM Co HEN over one hundred thousand dollars is raised by popular subscription taken in all parts of the country, to pay for a thimbleful of Radium to be presented by the President of the United States, at the White House, to Madame Curie, the discoverer of Radium, as a gift from the women of America, there is interest in the story of how this material is obtained, why it has this value and what makes it of present and of future importance to the civilization of the world. How the United States is the foremost Radium pro- ducing country, and Pittsburgh is the Radium center of the world, and how it owes this pre-eminence to the work of one man, Joseph M. Flannery, of Pittsburgh, as distinctly as France owes to Madame Curie, the honor of first making Radium known to the world, are details in the story of Radium that make an interesting chapter in the history of the development of the natural resources of the Americas, That Mr. Flannery gained much of the mining experience and no small part of the money he was able to put into his work for Radium, when he was developing the Vanadium deposits of the Peruvian Andes, is a detail that will be of present interest to Latin America and of permanent interest in the full story of how the greatest supply of Radium was made available for the benefit of the world. In 1895, soon after the discovery of the X-rays, Pro- fessor Henri Becquerel, of the University of Paris, under- took an exhaustive study to learn whether some metals after exposure to sunlight would shine when brought into a dark room, and if they did, whether that light would act as the newly discovered X-rays, that had the power to pass through thick and light proof paper.

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