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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on November 18, 2008, 09:51

Title: X-Ray Discovery Sparked 19th-Century DIY Craze
Post by: sam on November 18, 2008, 09:51

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/xrays.html

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What are the social consequences when science allows us to see things that had previously been invisible?

Title: Re: X-Ray Discovery Sparked 19th-Century DIY Craze
Post by: Clive on November 18, 2008, 10:42

What?  No health and safety warnings?   ;D

Title: Re: X-Ray Discovery Sparked 19th-Century DIY Craze
Post by: daveeb on November 18, 2008, 10:51

Talking of health and safety

At the beginning of the 20th century soda siphons using radioactive radon gas were all the rage. Good for the digestion apparently  :o