Radium Girls
Posted by Missy Chapman
In the 1920s, young working-class women could land a job working with a “miracle” substance called radium. Radium was widely heralded as an incredible new substance having been discovered just 20 years earlier by French physicists Marie Curie and Pierre Curie. It appeared to have an infinite number of uses. One of the first was to make the numbers on clocks and watches easier to see. Workers were…