Thread: Uranium Glass hone?

Radioactivity was very chic back in the 1920s. There were actually mass-marketed bottled waters with radium added, for health (!!), and you could buy radioisotope-lined water coolers. This trend went on until a wealthy New York mogul had his jaw fall off.


Kind of like "Doctors smoke Camels for better health" in the '50s. Can't wait to see what we know about antioxidants and tofu in another 50 years!

Wouldnt that be ironic? Tofu being more toxic than arsenic or something..?

Here's just two of the uranium glass items i have

cool i think

ian

Originally Posted by Stubear

Wouldnt that be ironic? Tofu being more toxic than arsenic or something..?

There's that old Woody Allen movie, sleepers I think where he wakes up 100 years later and everyone smokes cigarettes and eat high fat high sugar food because they found its good for you and all the low fat and health food really kills you. There's also a scene where he finds his old car a VW Beetle and after 100 years of sitting there he just gets in turns the key and it starts right up and he drives off.