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The women hired to paint dials came to be known as “ghost girls” because the radium dust to which they were exposed daily made their clothes, hair, and skin literally glow. Many of the women wore their best dresses on the job so the fabric would shine brilliantly when they went dancing after work.
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. The incidents occurred at three factories in the United States: one in Orange, New Jersey , beginning around 1917; one in Ottawa, Illinois , beginning in the early 1920s; and one in ...
5 Μαΐ 2017 · The Ghost Girls. With war declared, hundreds of working-class women flocked to the studio where they were employed to paint watches and military dials with the new element radium, which had been...
7 Ιουν 2024 · Radium Girls, factory workers in radium dial factories, fell ill with anemia, cancer and necrosis of the jaw due to radium poisoning from glow-in-the-dark paint. Radium, initially promoted as a cure-all, was used in consumer products and later in radium paint for instruments during World War I.
The Radium Girls left us all an extraordinary legacy. But who were they? In the book, The Radium Girls, Kate Moore introduces readers to these real women, who lived in New Jersey and in Illinois: separated by 800 miles, but united in their determination to stand up for themselves – and workers everywhere. Here she shares some further details ...
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. In fact, they ...
18 Απρ 2017 · "The glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." ― NPR Books Discover the gripping and inspiring true story of The Radium Girls, a groundbreaking work by acclaimed author Kate Moore. Immerse yourself in this compelling narrative that unravels the extraordinary lives of these fearless women who fought against all odds.
