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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...
The radium girls were a group of young female factory workers who painted watch dials with luminescent radium paint in the early 20th century. They sharpened the points of their brushes with the “lip, dip, paint” technique, and most of them later suffered from radiation poisoning and various forms of cancer.
4 ημέρες πριν · Radium tonics were popular among the wealthy; the girls who worked at the Radium Dial Company plant were told that the radium they worked with would “put roses on their cheeks.” So Catherine and the other women didn’t worry when they were taught to point the bristles of their paintbrushes by twirling them between their lips.
Catherine Wolfe Donohue was one of several radium-poisoned women who died before their cases were finalized and many other suffering dial-painters never sued, but the cases are remembered as significant in the development of occupational safety and health standards.
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...
