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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Radium Girls: Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler. With Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd. In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work …

Apr 25, 2017 · The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2017.

Mar 19, 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. …

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 …

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 …

Oct 27, 2024 · The company was still employing girls to paint watches with radium, assuring them that it was perfectly safe. The only way to hold the company accountable for its actions was …