Leaded Typeface

Vintage Royal Portable Typewriter in Original Carrying Case: 7,035 ppm Lead + 2,058 ppm Cadmium + 516 ppm Arsenic

Vintage Royal Portable Typewriter in Original Carrying Case: 7,035 ppm Lead + 2,058 ppm Cadmium + 516 ppm Arsenic

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For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used…

Benjamin Franklin’s Letter on Lead Poisoning – July 31, 1786

Benjamin Franklin’s Letter on Lead Poisoning – July 31, 1786

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Benjamin Franklin’s Letter On Lead Poisoning Phila July 31, 1786 (To Benjamin Vaughan) Dear Friend, I recollect that when I had the great Pleasure of seeing you at Southampton, now a 12 month since, we had some Conversation on the bad Effects of Lead taken inwardly; and that at your Request I promis’d to send…