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Description	English: A technician in the early 20th century (probably 1920s) working with radium using primitive radiation protection. From 1904 radium was used in medicine to treat cancer, but adequate protection from its rays was slow to develop. The worker is standing behind a lead shield to protect himself from the gamma rays. He looks through a window of lead glass. His right hand is covered by a lead shield.
Date	November 1929
Source	Retrieved October 14, 2015 from E. E. Free, "Rays - The clue to evolution" in Popular Science magazine, Popular Science Publishing Co., New York, Vol. 115, No. 5, November 1929, p. 20 on Google Books
Author	E. E. Free
Permission (Reusing this file)	This 1929 issue of Popular Science magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1957. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1956, 1957, and 1958 show no renewal entries for Popular Science. Therefore the copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain.

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