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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.
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...
4 ημέρες πριν · Considering the circumstances, it seems that Catherine would have been justified in simply living the rest of her life in as much peace as she could get, spending every possible second with her family before the inevitable end. But there was a problem: the Radium Dial company knew exactly what they were doing to the women who worked for them.
15 Αυγ 2024 · Decades after the radium girls worked as dial painters at manufacturing plants across the country, scientific studies would show the negative impact of the radioactive material on human health.
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...
15 Αυγ 2024 · Young women, often teenagers, were hired as dial painters to apply radium paint to watch faces, unknowingly ingesting radiation by "lip pointing" their brushes. Over time, the ingested radium led to devastating health issues like jaw deterioration, bone disintegration and cancers.
She was among the women who painted luminous numbers on watch, clock, and instrument dials using radium-laced paint in factories in New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut. Dubbed “Radium Girls” and “Living Dead,” they suffered radium poisoning and painful, early deaths.
