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I’d never heard of “x-rayed furniture,” and still don’t know anything about it. A Google search turned up nothing.
It seems from the advertising on the back that it was an attempt to show give x-rays provided consumers with quality assurance: “HIDDEN QUALITIES ARE REVEALED":
Were x-ray images shown to customers? I have no idea.
I’m reminded of Borenstein’s, the clothing store in my home town, Silver City, New Mexico, where I used to go with my mother. I always looked forward to those trips, because they had an x-ray machine that showed how new shoes fit. It was fun looking into that machine and watching the bones in my feet move when I wiggled my toes. Perhaps that’s why my son was with two heads! (Actually, he has just one very good head.)
Some time back I read a book titled (I think) The History of Ionizing Radiation. (“Through the displacement of electrons, ionizing radiation effectively disrupts molecular bonds. In living organisms, such disruption can cause extensive damage to cells and their genetic material." — Encyclopedia Brittanica) The book, among many things, discussed how beauty salons used x-rays in 1930 to treat acne, and how women who painted radium on watch dials would moisten small tooth brushes with saliva, dip them into radium, apply the paint to the watch dial, then moisten the radium-soaked brush with more saliva, then dip it into radium, etc. They commonly developed cancers that destroyed the the soft tissues around their lips as well as jawbones.
Ionizing radiation could be, and probably has been, the subject of many collections and exhibits. Here’s an interesting pair of “International Year of Peace” stamps, issued by Bangladesh in 1986, that would fit in such a collection:
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Here’s an interesting illustrated advertising cover, posted in February, 1945 from one Ontario company to another:
I’d never heard of “x-rayed furniture,” and still don’t know anything about it. A Google search turned up nothing.
It seems from the advertising on the back that it was an attempt to show give x-rays provided consumers with quality assurance: “HIDDEN QUALITIES ARE REVEALED":
Were x-ray images shown to customers? I have no idea.
I’m reminded of Borenstein’s, the clothing store in my home town, Silver City, New Mexico, where I used to go with my mother. I always looked forward to those trips, because they had an x-ray machine that showed how new shoes fit. It was fun looking into that machine and watching the bones in my feet move when I wiggled my toes. Perhaps that’s why my son was with two heads! (Actually, he has just one very good head.)
Some time back I read a book titled (I think) The History of Ionizing Radiation. (“Through the displacement of electrons, ionizing radiation effectively disrupts molecular bonds. In living organisms, such disruption can cause extensive damage to cells and their genetic material." — Encyclopedia Brittanica) The book, among many things, discussed how beauty salons used x-rays in 1930 to treat acne, and how women who painted radium on watch dials would moisten small tooth brushes with saliva, dip them into radium, apply the paint to the watch dial, then moisten the radium-soaked brush with more saliva, then dip it into radium, etc. They commonly developed cancers that destroyed the the soft tissues around their lips as well as jawbones.
Ionizing radiation could be, and probably has been, the subject of many collections and exhibits. Here’s an interesting pair of “International Year of Peace” stamps, issued by Bangladesh in 1986, that would fit in such a collection:
Bob
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