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Show A if SAFE Ingenious Construction of a Safe for the Valuable Metal Isndon, May 31 What Is declared to be the most Ingenious safe ever constructed has been completed for the British Radium corporation. The problem presented to the manufacturers manufactur-ers way not only to construct a safe that would bid defiance to burglars, but which at the same time would prevent the escape 'of the radium It Is well known lo eclentlsts that radium emanations will pass through the thickest and hardest steel. For this reason the inner coffer of the safe was made of lead, three Inches thick. Inclosed within a burglar proof steel shell. There ore many other special features, Including means of collecting the radium emanating eman-ating before the coffer Is opened. This compartment safe is designed to hold one hundred pounds of radium, radi-um, valued at five billion dollars. The total weight of the eafe is one and a half tons. |