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But when radium-dial-painting ‘studios’ were set up in Newark, New Jersey, and Ottawa, Illinois, hordes of working-class girls, some as young as 14, applied for jobs painting luminous numerals on watchfaces.
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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...
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.
The Radium Girls, women working for the US Radium factory around 1917, suffered bone fractures, radium jaw and other medical conditions caused by radiation poisoning from their work painting watch dials with radioactive glow-in-the-dark paint they were told was harmless.
7 Ιουν 2024 · The women who were falling ill were radium dial painters. They painted watch dials, clocks and instruments for ships and aircraft with glow-in-the-dark paint. Eventually, they would learn that it was radium poisoning from the paint that was slowly killing them.
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.
