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The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint.
6 Απρ 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 from the radiation, the women were given nothing.
8 Αυγ 2019 · Using safer techniques, clock and watch dials continued to be painted with radium until the 1960s. On March 1, 2014, the last of the radium girls, Mae Keane, died at her home in Middlebury...
28 Δεκ 2014 · In the 1920s, working-class women were hired to paint radium onto glowing watch dials — and told to sharpen the brush with their lips. Dozens died within a few years, but Keane quit, and...
1 Μαρ 2017 · During World War I and the years thereafter, dozens of teenage girls and young women worked in radium-dial factories, painting glow-in-the-dark numbers onto watches and airplane instruments....
4 ημέρες πριν · After graduating from high school, Catherine got a job painting the numbers on watch faces. The watches that Catherine and her co-workers painted had glow-in-the-dark numbers, a feature made possible by the discovery of radium, the new wonder element. The health benefits of this amazing element were touted everywhere.
6 ημέρες πριν · After graduating from high school, Catherine got a job painting the numbers on watch faces. The watches that Catherine and her co-workers painted had glow-in-the-dark numbers, a feature made ...
