When Radioactivity Was Cool (Radium Girls; Quackery; Etc.)

Remember the "Trimphone" ?

My parents got one of these, complete with high-pitched trilling ringtone and radioactive Tritium glow-in-the-dark dial, around 1968.
When discarded phones found their way into landfill sites some years later, there was concern that the sheer number of dials could constitute a radioactive concentration hazardous to health:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimphone
 
blessmycottonsocks said:
Remember the "Trimphone" ?

My parents got one of these, complete with high-pitched trilling ringtone and radioactive Tritium glow-in-the-dark dial, around 1968.
When discarded phones found their way into landfill sites some years later, there was concern that the sheer number of dials could constitute a radioactive concentration hazardous to health:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimphone
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Ours was a two-tone green one just like this one, going for silly money on eBay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-GPO...B&pageci=117cbac6-cf16-4309-ac31-b04f07c8b40e
 
I cant remember how we ended up with a Trimphone but do remember
when they withdrew them they were keen to get it back.
Some years later I seem to remember being told that thousands of them
had been found in two containers and that it caused quit a flap at the time.
 
EnolaGaia said:
One of the most dramatic victims of the radium craze was Eben Byers, whose demise was caused by his heavy use of an alleged "energy drink" (as we'd call it today) named Radithor.
Radithor's label proclaimed it to be "CERTIFIED Radioactive Water" containing "Radium and Mesothorium in Triple Distilled Water."
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If the Radithor didn't make you feel better, you could always stick it up 'yr butt! :D
https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/quackcures/radsup.htm
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What would happen if you microwaved radioactive toothpaste? Would you send yourself back to the year 1722 with superpowers or would it be more like The Incredible Shrinking Man where you end up fighting a spider in the bath?
 
A spoof Ad for a shaking toy bottle I believe. It's Bar Fun and Zany - the first description makes no sense and the second is a good indication that it's a waste of money.

Radioactive Bourbon.jpg
 
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