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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. 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 ...
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.
Jan 26, 2023 · By: Kate Morgan | Updated: Jan 26, 2023. The women dubbed Radium Girls painted luminous numbers on watches, clocks and instrument dials using radium-laced paint in factories in New Jersey, Illinois and Connecticut. Public Domain. The first illnesses appeared around 1920, and initially, doctors were baffled.
Apr 6, 2023 · Updated March 14, 2024. 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.
Apr 25, 2017 · The Radium Girls - Nuclear Museum. History Page Type: Health Issues. Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2017. In 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie, two of the most prominent pioneers in researching radioactivity, discovered the element radium.
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Dec 28, 2014 · Mae Keane, One Of The Last 'Radium Girls,' Dies At 107. Employees of the U.S. Radium Corp. paint numbers on the faces of wristwatches using dangerous radioactive paint. Dozens of women, known...
MEET THE RADIUM GIRLS... 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.
