Beschreibung
During this time, many locals, mostly young women, were employed to paint watch face numbers with radio-luminescent paint so that the numbers would glow in the dark. In order to paint such small numbers, women sharpened the tips of their paintbrush with their lips, ingesting small doses of the radium-containing paint, which later was discovered to be poisonous. As a result, many of these women, later dubbed “Radium Girls,” fell ill, often fatally.
