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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 Middlebury...
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint.
4 ημέρες πριν · It is so easy to become angry at the terrible injustice inflicted upon Catherine and other dial-painters who suffered such painful deaths at the hands of company executives who knew the truth about radium poisoning. When I see a picture of Catherine’s children, aged 3 and 5, kneeling in prayer before a crucifix after their mother’s death, I ...
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.
1 Μαρ 2017 · In the a new book titled The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, Kate Moore tells the story of how these dial painters took on the radium companies that made them...
22 Απρ 2017 · Kate Moore's new book digs into the short, painful lives of the Radium Girls, who worked painting luminous dials on watches and clocks — and were poisoned by the glowing radium paint they...
15 Μαρ 2017 · Radium is extremely dangerous. The element gets absorbed into the bones like calcium, and these women would go on to lose their teeth, jaws, and limbs to the radium poisoning. Many died.
