![]() ![]() These girls were known as “ghost girls” as the radium made them glow - they considered it a sign of the health benefits to working with the new miracle element. They were encouraged to eat at their workstation and even paint their clothes and faces with the radium - despite the fact that the science men employed at the same companies had to wear lead aprons and hold the radium with tongs to manipulate the radium. The technique shown to the girls was called the “dip, lip, paint” technique in which they put their brush into the radium infused liquid, then put the brush in their mouths to shape it to a point and then to paint. Young girls (as young as 13) found work in factories in the early 1900s–1940s painting watches dials for planes and more. ![]() ![]() It was included in water tonics and medicines and it also was used to paint watches and more during both world wars as it allowed for the dials to glow.ĭespite the fad around radium, scientists learned painfully that it could hurt them as they found their bodies burnt from the liquid form kept in vials or other painful growths - despite that, the element was hugely promoted and “researched” by firms that used radium in products sold to the government and the public all agreeing that it was safe for use. Radium found in the early 1900s was considered for the general public to be a “health” product. This book details the work young girls did from the advent of WW1 into WW2 working at factories using duh radium. I read a book about the Radium Girls - and just thinking about it gives me chills. See, for me, reading is a visible thing - I see the story in my mind the way you see it on your movie screen or TV.Īs much as I love to read, the mechanics are lost to me - so I cannot take lessons from what I read to write my own books though I am doing fairly well with writing short stories, so that is a consolation… I find a book a like and I read it voraciously until it is over and then I think about it and wish I could write something a fraction as good. I love to read (and write) - finding books that I can devour is part of what brings me joy. ![]()
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