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Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Radium dials were produced throughout most of the 20th century before being replaced by safer tritium -based luminous material in the 1970s and finally by non-toxic, non-radioactive strontium aluminate ...
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 Middlebury...
In 1925 a pathologist named Harrison Martland developed a test that proved conclusively that radium had poisoned the watch painters by destroying their bodies from the inside. The radium industry tried to discredit Martland’s findings, but the Radium Girls themselves fought back.
19 Δεκ 2017 · Women painting alarm clock faces at the Ingersoll factory in January 1932. Known as the "Radium Girls," these workers were putting their health at risk by lip-pointing the brush and ingesting...
15 Αυγ 2024 · What the Illinois women and girls who worked as dial painters endured in the 1920s and ’30s as a result of radium exposure was life-altering and in some cases fatal.
By 1924, nine dial painters were dead. They were all young women in their 20s who had been healthy, happily painting tiny bright numbers on delicate instruments. Early example of collaboration by elite academic medical institutions with industry.
