He wound up in a mental asylum after that. The doctors who saw them knew they had radium in them, but didn’t tell them. They demanded to be seen by doctors, only to be lied to about not having radium in them and they were perfectly healthy. I wonder if there is any way I could find his position there. According to the book Radium Girls, after a year the girls started to complain about jaw pains and their teeth started to fall out. As for anon24881 I don't know how you would go about finding out the information you seek but I hope you find the answers and share them with us. I think more people should know about things like this. Needless to say she was excited and so was I when she asked me to help her. Nearly 100 years after Mollie’s death, women still face dangers in the workplace eerily similar to what the Radium Girls were up against.
To her surprise her slip said the radium girls. A few weeks later my daughter came home from class and told me that she had a project to do and that they had to pick their topics blindly out of box the teacher provided. The painting was done at 3 different facilities in the U.S.: A United States Radium factory in Orange, NJ (beginning around 1917) A Radium Dial Company facility at Ottawa, IL. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. The Radium Girls were female factory workers tasked with painting watch dials with self-luminous paint - which was made of radium powder, gum arabic, and water. In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rageuntil the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. I felt so bad for these women and thought that their story was really interesting. Photos Additional Information Show Information.
The first time I heard of these girls I was watching a show with my 17 year old daughter called 1000 ways to die. Well anon24881, at the company website (if there is one) when you have proof that you are his grandson you might be able to see the company records.