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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 to come home glowing in the dark. Then they found that the exposure caused ...
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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 ...
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They thought this ‘miracle’ metal would change the world – until people started to die
From 1917, factories of the US Radium Corporation and the Radium Dial Company employed large numbers of young women to paint the dials of watches. Using camel-hair brushes, they were instructed to ...