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144: The Radium Girls
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Mar 18, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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.
Released:
Mar 18, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
1: Introducing Mysteries and Histories by Mysteries and Histories