The Sparklet System has a pressurized radon gas cartridge so you could have delicious, refreshing, and healthful radon water any time!
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HT @LucyJane_Santos for the picture of the radon bulbs.
The Sparklets water system had your choice of CO2 OR delicious radon gas cartridges!
ht @rrgeorge for the first image advertising the benefits of radon gas in your water.
Pic 2 is an ad for the CO2 bulbs. Pic 3 is mine at the @nuclearmuseum.
There were a DISTRESSINGLY LARGE number of commercially sold systems for invigorating your water with radium, radon, and radioactive energy in the early 1900s.
The “Radium Ore Revigator” was one of the earliest & best known & sold as a “perpetual health spring in the house.”
The Radium Emanator filter jar is made from vaseline glass that contained uranium & was itself slightly radioactive.
Water from the top portion drained through a radium filter in the middle that added DELICIOUS AND HEALTHFUL RADON GAS! 😍
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Oh, wow!
This radium water jug is from (no longer existing) Hotel Sequoyah in Claremore, OK!
Marketed as remedy for “rheumatism, eczema, & stomach problems.”
I believe this would have been a jar of water from the hotel’s Radium Baths rather than having a radioactive source.
The Thomas Cone may appear to the untrained eye to be a Radium Buttplug but it is, in fact, an emanator for placing in water to add radon/radioactive health.
The Thomas Cone was sand, cement, and uranium ore.
The Museum has this labeled as a “portable revigator” but the brand looks like “Offra Radium Emanator”.
Presumably water went in at the top where a radium source or uranium ore was to charge the water with DELICIOUS RADON.
The important thing is that AMAZINGLY STYLISH case!
The “Radio-Rem” (Radioactive Remedy) outfit came in several versions.
In this one you were supposed to fill all the bottles at once and drink 2 per day, refilling as you went.
A terra cotta rod supposedly containing radium sulphate provided the DELICIOUS RADON.
Golden Age of radioactive quack cures in US ended in 1930s after death of wealthy socialite from drinking lots of Radithor highlighted what a horrible fucking idea this was.
“The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off”:
scribd.com/document/18817…
HT @rjblaskiewicz
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