June 26, 2012
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Rogi’s 2nd Cake question!
What are these women doing? Most of them had a very unfortunate and tragic end.
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Cracked by: MadGenius , Manish Achuth , Amarendra Kumar , Bipin Banavalikar , Rogi , Don42 , vinayaknp , rickde , Sumanth Patlolla , Bharath , Mo , Dibyo and Ananth
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Painting details on clock dials using radium that truly glowed in the dark for up to several decades. A lot of them died from radiation poisoning.
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Early glow in the dark watches – paint had radium. They were told to like the paintbrushes when they painted the radioactive paint in.
Radium Girls. They painted watches with radium to make them glow in the dark. Most of them died after exposure.
female factory workers painting glowing radium on watch dials. contracted radiation illness.
Radium dial painters working in a factory
Painting clock dials and hands with Radium, which, it turns out was “not too bright”. (The original title for this one)
The Radium Girls.
They contracted radium poisoning by painting watch-dials with ‘glow in the dark’ paint.
Employees at US Radium painting watches. They used paint consisting of radium which caused severe health problems
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Radium Girls
female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint at the United States Radium factory
Radium Girls, the young painters of luminous watch dials in the 1920s who contracted radiation poisoning
Radium watch dial painters
they were also termed as “radium girls” — who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint at the United States Radium factory in Orange, New Jersey around 1917
Painting radium onto watch faces
radium girls, painting radium dials on clockfaces
Making watches with glowing ‘radium’ hands. Guess they all suffered from cancer due to radiation exposure.
The cake was a lie!