The Messed Up Truth About The Radium Girls

The story of the Radium Girls is one of the most horrifying in recent history, yet it has been nearly forgotten today. What started as a fairly good job for a group of poor women, though, soon turned into a nightmare. This is the messed up truth about the Radium Girls. Radium was discovered in 1898, and it didn’t take long for entrepreneurs to see the potential value in its luminescent properties. A few years after it was discovered, William J. Hammer mixed it with zinc sulfide and created a paint. While h