Radium Girls - Wikipedia
WEBThe Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. The incidents occurred at three factories in the United States: one in Orange, New Jersey , beginning around 1917; one in Ottawa, Illinois , beginning in the early 1920s; and one in ...
Radium Girls: The Women Who Fought for Their Lives in a ...
WEBHundreds of young women were hired for the well-paying painting jobs because their small hands were well suited for the exacting, detailed work. Radium had been discovered just 20 years earlier by French physicists Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and its …
Mae Keane, One Of The Last 'Radium Girls,' Dies At 107 - NPR
WEBDec 28, 2014 · Mae Keane, One Of The Last 'Radium Girls,' Dies At 107. Employees of the U.S. Radium Corp. paint numbers on the faces of wristwatches using dangerous radioactive paint. Dozens of women, known...
The Radium Girls' Dark Story Still Glows With Death and Deceit
WEBJun 7, 2024 · Radium Girls, factory workers in radium dial factories, fell ill with anemia, cancer and necrosis of the jaw due to radium poisoning from glow-in-the-dark paint. Radium, initially promoted as a cure-all, was used in consumer products and later in radium paint for instruments during World War I.
The Radium Girls, The Female Factory Workers Poisoned By ...
WEBApr 6, 2023 · Known as the Radium Girls, female watchmakers painted dials with self-luminous paint filled with radioactive radium, leading to severe health complications. While the men wore lead aprons to protect themselves …
The Radium Girls - Nuclear Museum
WEBApr 25, 2017 · The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2017.
Radium Girls (2018) - IMDb
WEBRadium Girls: Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler. With Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd. In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work conditions after some of their colleagues become ill from radium exposure.
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