Radium City, U.S.A.

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Radium City, U.S.A. In the spring of 1921, the preeminent French physicist Marie Curie (1867-1934) traveled from her home in Paris to the United States where, on Friday, May 20, she attended a White House ceremony during which President Warren G. Harding presented her with a key symbolizing a gift of one gram of radium from the women of America. Costing one hundred thousand dollars, this tiny amount of radium would...
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Letters

Posted by on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters Boom Town Thank you for the fine article “Survival of an American Boom Town” by Gregory DL Morris in the Summer 2005 issue about Bradford in McKean County. My father was born in Kendall, McKean County, in 1884. That community apparently no longer exists and has become part of Bradford, although there remains a Kendall Creek and a Kendall Avenue, as well as mention in the article of...
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Letters

Posted by on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters Radium, U.S.A I look forward to receiving every edition of Pennsylvania Heritage. The articles are always informative and well written. I learned much about Pittsburgh’s early contributions to the nuclear age from Joel O. Lubenau’s article, “Radium City, U.S.A.” The photographs were intriguing, especially those of Marie Curie touring the Standard Chemical Company’s...
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