Inventions with radiation (12 photos)

Now everyone knows that such radiation, and it is dangerous.
But at the time when these things were invented, it seems, no one thought.
Then you read about the most absurd things that contain radiation.

Radioactive clock. Effect of glowing in the dark arrows obtained using radioactive radium-based paint.




Homeopathic medicine beginning of the 20th century - the radioactive water.





Radioactive Chocolate



Radioactive toothpaste during the Second World.

The Allies found a box with a radioactive toothpaste in Germany. It is said that pasta was popular at that time in Germany. It contained a radioactive element - thorium. Did the Germans that thorium contained in the toothpaste found, would be enough for 100 Hiroshima ...



Powder radium



Set for a schoolboy. 1950 US.

Included: a lot of alpha, gamma and beta radiation sources, a Geiger counter, the management of "how to enrich uranium" and other devices to conduct "experiments".
Not a word about the possible dangers of radiation and no means of protection.



Pacemaker.

The first models of pacemakers worked on plutonium batteries. Plutonium is also known as the most toxic element on earth.



Anal candles for the treatment of hemorrhoids with the content of radium.



Condoms with uranium impregnation. Probably they thought it is easier to kill sperm.



The means for increasing the activity of sperm. It is absurd, but it was. It is worn in the front pocket and consisted of enriched radium.