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Apr 23, 2024 · Dive into the poignant story of the Radium Girls, exposed to radioactive paint at work, revealing the devastating impact of industrial radiation.
Jan 26, 2023 · By 1927, more than 50 women had died because of radium paint poisoning. But the Radium Girls' story doesn't end there. Their story saved lives, too. Their diseases and suffering made the public aware of the dangers of radium. "By 1935, the use of radium in most consumer products had ended and government regulation banned its use," says Stemm.
May 10, 2024 · One of the macabre fascinations with the “Radium Girls” story was how — assuming the women won the lawsuit — one might spend a quarter million dollars with only a year to live. One enterprising newspaper asked 10 randomly selected women what they would do.
Dec 19, 2017 · Known as the "Radium Girls," these workers were putting their health at risk by lip-pointing the brush and ingesting radioactive radium. Radium Girls work in a factory owned by the...
Mar 1, 2017 · During World War I and the years thereafter, dozens of teenage girls and young women worked in radium-dial factories, painting glow-in-the-dark numbers onto watches and airplane instruments....
Jan 25, 2018 · NPR ILLINOIS | 91.9 UIS. A life-sized statue erected in honor of Ottawa's radium girls was dedicated in 2011, in Ottawa. Part 1: Radium poisoning took the lives of perhaps thousands of female factory workers, many in Ottawa, Illinois, in the last century.
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Apr 11, 2023 · Trainee Assistant Digital Curator, Gabrielle Bryan-Quamina, delves into our collection to tell the story of the Radium Girls, the first casualties of industrial radium poisoning. The outbreak of the First World War led to the proliferation of wristwatches for men.
