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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 ...
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.
Jun 7, 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.
Apr 6, 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.
May 5, 2017 · During World War I, hundreds of young women went to work in clock factories, painting watch dials with luminous radium paint. But after the girls — who literally glowed in the dark after their...
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.
Dec 28, 2014 · Keane died this year. At 107 years old, she was one of the last of the radium girls. Blum says the radium girls had a profound impact on workplace regulations.
