Living With Radiation: The First Hundred Years 2020 update
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 11:43 pm
Frame, Paul and William Kolb. "Living With Radiation: The First Hundred Years." Syntec, Inc. 2002.
Price: $36.00 (Directly from Bill Kolb via PayPal; see below link to order.)
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTab ... ation.html
The science hobbyist often has a use for radioactive materials. Perhaps you want some radium for a cloud chamber or spinthariscope. Maybe you need some uranium metal to replicate the Hahn-Strassman experiment. Maybe you just want some gamma ray sources to calibrate a spectroscopy system. You might think that, in this age of strict regulations, dirty bomb fears, and "Big Brother" Ashcroft, you're flat out of luck!!
It so happens that we are all in luck. The hot stuff is out there--and so is a book that will tell you exactly what to look for when seeking out radioactive items. "Living With Radiation: The First Hundred Years," by Bill Kolb and Paul Frame, is THE definitive, amazingly thorough and detailed guide to radioactive consumer products, antiques, quack medical devices, military and industrial items, minerals, and even foods. If radioactivity interests you, this book IS A MUST-HAVE!!
---This book is unique. Nothing else ever published even remotely compares.
---The info is modern, and updated continuously by the authors.
---You will see photos of many of the items described in the text, making for easy on-sight recognition at flea markets or antique malls.
---Information about the activity of, or the dose rates associated with, an item, are provided.
---Regardless of your level of experience with radioactivity, you will be amazed at what is out there. Sources of radioactive material from nanocuries to multiple curies are described in this book.
Aside from its content describing the myriad of radioactive items that are available, the book also provides a one-stop reference of useful information about radioactivity. This includes: conversion factors (dose, activity, etc.); regulations on owning and shipping radioactives; an overview of radiation detection and measurement; recipes for uranium toners and pottery glazes, among much else. I use the tables of radioactive vacuum tubes (by number) and radioactive military items quite a lot.
The book, through its examples, tells the fascinating history of our society's love-hate relationship with radiation. There was a time--not long ago!--when people actually bought uranium-ore comforters that were "guaranteed to be radioactive," and stuffed millicurie radium sources into their underwear to stimulate their "glands."
So buy this book, grab a Geiger counter, hit the flea markets!
-Carl Willis
Price: $36.00 (Directly from Bill Kolb via PayPal; see below link to order.)
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTab ... ation.html
The science hobbyist often has a use for radioactive materials. Perhaps you want some radium for a cloud chamber or spinthariscope. Maybe you need some uranium metal to replicate the Hahn-Strassman experiment. Maybe you just want some gamma ray sources to calibrate a spectroscopy system. You might think that, in this age of strict regulations, dirty bomb fears, and "Big Brother" Ashcroft, you're flat out of luck!!
It so happens that we are all in luck. The hot stuff is out there--and so is a book that will tell you exactly what to look for when seeking out radioactive items. "Living With Radiation: The First Hundred Years," by Bill Kolb and Paul Frame, is THE definitive, amazingly thorough and detailed guide to radioactive consumer products, antiques, quack medical devices, military and industrial items, minerals, and even foods. If radioactivity interests you, this book IS A MUST-HAVE!!
---This book is unique. Nothing else ever published even remotely compares.
---The info is modern, and updated continuously by the authors.
---You will see photos of many of the items described in the text, making for easy on-sight recognition at flea markets or antique malls.
---Information about the activity of, or the dose rates associated with, an item, are provided.
---Regardless of your level of experience with radioactivity, you will be amazed at what is out there. Sources of radioactive material from nanocuries to multiple curies are described in this book.
Aside from its content describing the myriad of radioactive items that are available, the book also provides a one-stop reference of useful information about radioactivity. This includes: conversion factors (dose, activity, etc.); regulations on owning and shipping radioactives; an overview of radiation detection and measurement; recipes for uranium toners and pottery glazes, among much else. I use the tables of radioactive vacuum tubes (by number) and radioactive military items quite a lot.
The book, through its examples, tells the fascinating history of our society's love-hate relationship with radiation. There was a time--not long ago!--when people actually bought uranium-ore comforters that were "guaranteed to be radioactive," and stuffed millicurie radium sources into their underwear to stimulate their "glands."
So buy this book, grab a Geiger counter, hit the flea markets!
-Carl Willis