I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will probably eventually barely finish it and then post it here. But in the mean time, I will recount some stories which are related, but don't quite fit in. Today, we'll learn a bit about the self-illumination industry. At the turn of the 20th century, it was discovered that the newfangled element radium could be combined with a phosphor to create a paint that glowed. This was pretty much as cool a...
