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 - Radium 3:48 - The Luminous Material Corporation 5:45 - Dial Painters - Ghost girls 14:45 - Dr. Sabin 19:28 - Amelia Maggia "Mollie" 29:08 - How Radium effects the body 31:01 - Other girls get sick 32:30 - Irene Rudolph 36:57 - Buying off Doctors 38:22 - Grace Fryer 39:42 - Hiring their own experts 43:10 - The Turning Point 46:59 - Finding a Lawyer & The lawsuit 52:55 - The Radium Dial Lawsuit 55:22 - The aftermath 55:34 - A Note for Collectors 56:14 - 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.pdf Clip 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 Autobiographies New 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