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The Radium Girls (Episode 138)
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In 1914, a scientist made a new kind of paint, a paint that glowed. A company was founded, and they needed girls with small hands to work there, applying that paint to the hands and numbers of watches and to the dials of gauges in aircraft.
One problem - the paint was deadly. And nobody told the girls.
150 episodes
Manage episode 415179492 series 3319325
In 1914, a scientist made a new kind of paint, a paint that glowed. A company was founded, and they needed girls with small hands to work there, applying that paint to the hands and numbers of watches and to the dials of gauges in aircraft.
One problem - the paint was deadly. And nobody told the girls.
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