A demonstration of the “photographic action” of radium, and the possibility of reversal through prolonged exposure, from Charles Raffety’s An Introduction to the Science of Radioactivity (1909).
Featured on PDR in the essay Radioactive Fictions: Marie Corelli and the Omnipotence of Thoughts
Outselling books by Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells in their day, Marie Corelli’s occult romance novels brim with fantasies of telepathy, mesmerism, and radioactivity. Steven Connor revisits The Life Everlasting (1911), where the recent discovery of radium shapes the mechanics of phantasmal machines and psychic forces able to pass through all impediments.
Also appearing in the essay…
Reversal Produced by Radium Rays
Date
1909
From
An Introduction to the Science of Radioactivity
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