EPISODE · Mar 18, 2024 · 37 MIN
144: The Radium Girls
from Mysteries and Histories · host Georgia Marie
FROM THE VAULT - in 1917, the Radium Luminous Material Corporation started producing luminous paints called Undark, with companies quickly realising how helpful luminescent watch faces would be for the military. Hordes of women were employed in factories, tasked with the painstaking job of painting the watches... only as we all know, radium and humans do not mix.
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