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10 lut 2022 · Here is the first part of my revamped series, "Famous Deaths of the 1920s," which I started about 2 years ago. Since I made the first 3 parts, I have found many more interesting stories that I...
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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 one in ...
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11 cze 2021 · The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint.
19 mar 2019 · Catherine Wolfe Donohue was one of several radium-poisoned women who died before their cases were finalized and many other suffering dial-painters never sued, but the cases are remembered as significant in the development of occupational safety and health standards.
Lisa Berry-Waite, our 1920s record specialist, tells the story of 10 women through 10 short videos. Lisa reveals how each individual, through their determination and resolve to defy...
