The Untold Story of the Radium Girls: The Women Who Glowed in the Dark

"The Untold Story of the Radium Girls: The Women Who Glowed in the Dark"The shocking and tragic story of factory workers poisoned by radium, shedding light on industrial negligence.0:00 - Intro 0:48 - Wrist Watches 2:28 - Radium3:48 - The Luminous Material Corporation5:45 - Dial Painters - Ghost girls14:45 - Dr. Sabin19:28 - Amelia Maggia "Mollie"29:08 - How Radium effects the body31:01 - Other girls get sick32:30 - Irene Rudolph 36:57 - Buying off Doctors38:22 - Grace Fryer39:42 - Hiring their own experts 43:10 - The Turning Point46:59 - Finding a Lawyer & The lawsuit52:55 - The Radium Dial Lawsuit 55:22 - The aftermath55:34 - A Note for Collectors56:14 - OSHA & The Radium Girls Legacy 56:59 - Book Recommendation SOURCES: BOOK: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls http://www.annclinlabsci.org/content/5/2/75.full.pdfClip from Radium City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPpRrUI3PyE  https://vimeo.com/ondemand/radiumcity https://www.officialwatches.com/blogs/articles/the-radium-girls"Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910–1935" by Claudia Clark (1997)U.S. National Library of Medicine: "The Story of the Radium Girls”"Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy" by Ross Mullner (1999) PBS American Experience: "The Poisoner’s Handbook”"A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness" by NHK-TV (2007)Smithsonian Magazine: "The Radium Girls and the Generation That Survived" (2017)Marie Curie’s Scientific Papers and AutobiographiesNew York Times Archives: Coverage of the Radium Girls Trial (1928)The New Yorker: "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off" (1932)Support the show