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Radium Girls // 193 // Part 2
Manage episode 388581034 series 2827328
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning beginning in 1917, while they were painting watches with self-luminous paint. This occurred at three factories in the United States: Orange, New Jersey, Ottawa, Illinois, and Waterbury Connecticut. The women were assured that the paint was harmless, but that wasn't true, and they ingested deadly amounts of radium.
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Resources:
- Radium Girls: The Women Who Fought for Their Lives in a Killer Workplace | Britannica
- Smithsonian displays ore containing radium, United States Radium Corporation (1921) - Newspapers.com™
- https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/centennial-radium-forged-report/
- https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5559067/women-radium-victims-offer-selves-for/
- Radium Girls: Living Dead Women | Headlines & Heroes (loc.gov)
- In Her Footsteps: Radium Girls of Ottawa, IL - YouTube
- The Radium Girls:The Dark Story of America’s... by Moore, Kate (amazon.com)
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Manage episode 388581034 series 2827328
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning beginning in 1917, while they were painting watches with self-luminous paint. This occurred at three factories in the United States: Orange, New Jersey, Ottawa, Illinois, and Waterbury Connecticut. The women were assured that the paint was harmless, but that wasn't true, and they ingested deadly amounts of radium.
Website: https://www.drinkingthecoolaid.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/drinkingthecoolaid
Support us: https://paypal.me/mhawk7?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
Resources:
- Radium Girls: The Women Who Fought for Their Lives in a Killer Workplace | Britannica
- Smithsonian displays ore containing radium, United States Radium Corporation (1921) - Newspapers.com™
- https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/centennial-radium-forged-report/
- https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5559067/women-radium-victims-offer-selves-for/
- Radium Girls: Living Dead Women | Headlines & Heroes (loc.gov)
- In Her Footsteps: Radium Girls of Ottawa, IL - YouTube
- The Radium Girls:The Dark Story of America’s... by Moore, Kate (amazon.com)
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