[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab

Tue May 12 07:34:31 PDT 2020

Hello Marc, and welcome to the list, I hope you find our meetings
interesting and educational.
I remember being disappointed when they would no longer let me look at my
feet through the fluoroscope, I climbed on it and tried to see anyway, but
of course it didn't work.  No one in the store knew why it couldn't be used
though, just that it couldn't.
-steve

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:00 AM Stern, Marc <MSTERN at bentley.edu> wrote:

> Hello.  I'm new to this list and group.  I'm not sure that kids playing
> with radioactive isotopes or asbestos were some of the wiser ways of
> developing an interest in science and the world around us.   I'm pretty
> sure I had a piece of uranium in my rock collection as well.
>
> I had one of those watches too. They were very cool to see glow in the
> dark.  For a different take on the social cost (not the pleasure of the
> watch) check out the book *Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health
> Reform, 1910-1935* by the late Claudia Clark.  The book chronicles the
> nightmarish fate of so many of the young women who worked in the dial
> painting industry.  Rather like the girls who worked in phosphorous match
> making (who died of "phossy jaw"). And while the little piece of asbestos
> was probably no big deal, it's ubiquity in American construction, it's
> devastating human effect on thousands in many industries, including, not
> least, construction and shipbuilding, and mining communities while firms
> knew the damage they were causing (see *Defending the Indefensible, *by
> McCullough and Tweedale) ..., well, that little piece probably wasn't a
> threat, but that's not why things changed.  The fluoroscopes were cool, to
> be sure, but the shoe salesmen who died,  you get the idea.   And I suspect
> Bill would have taken way more than one shot to his feet.  I suspect coming
> of age after Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have sharply reduced the use of
> those machines.
>
> I too want kids to range, explore and make their own ways with less
> parental and adult oversight and control.  I really fear for the loss of
> autonomous play.  I wonder if the smaller size of families induces both
> greater emotional, social, and financial investment (and fear of loss) with
> fewer children per family?  There's interesting work on the class
> differences in this sort of question as between larger working-class
> families and smaller middle/upper-middle class families.
>
> Sorry for babbling on by way of saying hello.
>
> Marc Stern
>
>
>
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> I was born in 1949 but I don't remember ever seeing a fluoroscope at the
> shoe store in NY. I must have just missed that. I would have been
> fascinated by that device!
>
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