![]() ![]() The DRS didn’t produce or process ore, but it did market radium products.Īn even stronger case can be made that the real forerunner of the Denver Radium Service was the Radium Products Laboratories which operated from 1922-1924 with Bryan as its president. Although no company affiliation was indicated, the Denver City Directories for these years described him as a producer of radium, uranium and vanadium ores and products. The beginnings of the Denver Radium Service are more likely to be found in William Bryan’s activities during 19. If some sort of chemistry (e.g., ore processing) was conducted at these locations, I suppose you could call them “research laboratories,” and claim that they were established sometime around 1914-1916. Although these companies claimed to be in the ore processing business, they were more concerned with finding investors than processing ore. The DRS publication “Attention of Physician” made a slightly more credible claim: “RESEARCH LABORATORIES ESTABLISHED 1914.” Beginning in 1915/1916, several of William Bryan’s companies had addresses on Glenarm Place in downtown Denver. The earliest mentions of the Denver Radium Service that I have found are from 1925 (in the Denver City Directory and Colorado Business Directory). In a brochure for the Radiumactive Vitalizer (no date), Sally indicated that the DRS was founded in 1914. Following his death in 1927, and until her death in 1960, the Denver Radium Service was in the hands of his widow, Sally Bryan.Īdditional information about William Bryan can be found in the description of the collection’s Lifetime Radium Vitalizer Water Jar. Additional information about Sally Bryan can be found at the bottom of this page. The DRS seems to have been a one-person operation, and from 1925 until 1927, that person was William Edgar Bryan. The Denver Radium Service never incorporated, nor did they have a president, secretary, treasurer, or board of directors-at least to my knowledge. They never called themselves a company-to have done so might have been misleading. The prosaic reality was that the DRS produced radium containing cosmetics and related items. Indeed, much of its literature extolling the virtues of radium was directed at physicians. ![]() The Denver Radium Service (DRS), aka the Denver Radium Service Laboratories, projected the impression that it conducted scientific and/or medical research. The emanator, which I believe could be purchased separately, was first known as the "Radiumizer Vitalizer Generator." At some point, the name was changed to the "Radium Vitalizer Generator." The Denver Radium Service (Laboratories) Its radioactive source was a cylindrical white ceramic emanator that was placed inside the jar. Believe it or not, the name was changed two more times: first to the Radiumactive Vitalizer jar, and finally to the Radium Vitalizer jar. The company's signature product was a white ceramic jar (and the emanator that went inside it) for producing "radium-gas charged health water in office, hotel, home or while travelling." In the earliest reference to the jar I have found, a booklet titled “Attention of Physician” (no date, but post 1921), it was referred to as the Radium Niton Generator and the Radium Emanation Generator. ![]() cleanser and tissue cream combined") and Narada Radium Balm ("amazing results"). In addition to Narada Ointment, the Denver Radium Service also sold: Narada Radium Massage Cream ("once used, always used"), Narada Radium Astringent ("wonderfully refreshing"), Narada Radium Tissue Cream ("a perfect skin nourisher"), Narada Radium Liquid Foundation Cream ("perfected after years of research"), Narada Radium Complexion Cream ("no other cream is necessary. One of the impressive things about Denver Radium Services was its wide range of “ethical radium preparations.” Several are identified in the following list of items seized by the federal government in 19: Radium-Active Emanation Bath, Chloradium Ophthalmic Solution, Internal Chloradium Solution, Chloradium Vaginal Jelly, Chloradium Suppositories, the Radium Appliance, the Radium Vitalizer Generator and Narada Ointment. ![]()
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