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Atomic-Powered Hats of the Future

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OK, it’s not really a hat, just a late-1960s “differential multidetector” that used radioisotopes to diagnose (and maybe cause a few) brain tumors. But I swear the eccentric hat junkie Isabella Blow once wore something exactly like it to Ascot.

From The Atom at Work: How Nuclear Power Can Benefit Man (1968), by C.B. Colby.

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