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Genre: Science & Technology
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Uploaded At Apr 5, 2022 ^^
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It was painted on to glow in the dark (if I remember correctly). I also feel mostly bad for the women who had to paint them, not just because they were directly exposed to it, but because when painting, they were told to use their lips to make the brush into a point to paint better. Just straight Radium right into the mouth. Whatâs even worse is some women would paint their teeth with it to see their teeth glow in the dark.
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My grandparents both moved to England from Ireland and both worked in a factory making watches and speedometers and things like that in the 50s and 60s. They met each other there and returned home to have a family together. They both worked a lot with radium and uranium paint. Sadly both of them would eventually die of cancer decades later.
In college I was studying a module on medical physics and in it we were taught about radium watches. Our lecturer showed us some pictures of a factory in England manufacturing these things and in each picture I saw a woman who looked like my aunt and a man who looked like my uncle. It was my grandparents.
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I remember the story about "radium girls" women employed to paint those watch hands with radium paint... They were advised shape the tip of the brush with their lips to make it thin and precise.... Yhey sued the company when parts of their faces started to rot away and fall off just to be compensated a mere pennies and only when they lived long enough to hear the verdict...
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What is scary is what happened to the women that painted the watch hands. The Radium Girls were factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials â watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. After being told that the paint was harmless, the women in each facility ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip. Some also painted their fingernails, faces, and teeth with the glowing substance
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I make things out of old watches and alarm clocks and never thought twice about it. Then I watched a You Tube video about the radium they used to paint the dials and hands with. I never moved so fast as when I hustled it to my studio and promptly threw away all the dials and hands that had this substance on it.
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@RJ-kb3qf
2 years ago
âItâs kind of scary that people used to wear these aroundâ has a whole box of them in his house
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