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23 Απρ 2024 · Dive into the poignant story of the Radium Girls, exposed to radioactive paint at work, revealing the devastating impact of industrial radiation.
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 ...
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6 Απρ 2023 · Explore the haunting story of the Radium Girls, a group of women exposed to lethal amounts of radium while working in watch factories in early 20th-century America. Wikimedia Commons “Radium girls” painting alarm clock faces in the Ingersoll factory in January 1932.
25 Απρ 2017 · One of the girls showed luminous spots on her legs and thighs. The back of another was luminous almost to the waist.”. All along, the company assured the women that their work was perfectly safe. Within a few years, however, dozens of the women began showing signs of illness.
8 Αυγ 2019 · Often, the girls’ first intimation that they had radium poisoning was catching sight of themselves in a mirror at night. Their bones literally glowed in the dark. Then, the girls started dying.
19 Μαρ 2019 · She was among the women who painted luminous numbers on watch, clock, and instrument dials using radium-laced paint in factories in New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut. Dubbed “Radium Girls” and “Living Dead,” they suffered radium poisoning and painful, early deaths.
