They thought this ‘miracle’ metal would change the world – until people started to die
The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became ...
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Museum exhibit sheds light on Ottawa’s tragic radium dial history
The Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the young women who used radium paint on watch faces in the early 1900s while employed by ...
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The Story Of The Radium Girls And Their Decades-Long Fight For Justice
The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...
The Lancet8 年
The Radium Girls
The girls at the factories in New Jersey and rural Illinois used a special technique to point their paintbrushes. It involved moistening the radium encrusted brushes with their mouths. Moore breezily ...
The Inter-Mountain5 年
High Drama
“‘Radium Girls’ is a historical fiction production,” said Matt Taylor, a theater and English teacher at EHS. “It is based on a dark episode in history when these young women paint glowing dials on ...