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Episode 1: The Radium Girls
In this episode Leonna tells Quinn the hallowing story of the discovery of radium, the women behind the moniker; The Radium Girls, and their fight for justice.
Follow for the next episode of Date Fright.
Sources:
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls
This Month in Physics History December 1898: The Curies Discover Radium : https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/200412/history.cfm
Radium Girls Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
Radium Jaw Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_jaw
The Radium Dial Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Dial_Company
“Get Me A Radium Highball!”: New York and the Radium Craze by Kate Burch: https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze
Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium by Nanny Fröman: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium/
Radium Girls: The Women Who Fought for Their Lives in a Killer Workplace by Don Vaughan: https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-a-killer-workplace
Facts and ideas from anywhere by William Clifford Roberts: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5595405/#:~:text=In%201913%2C%20Sabin%20von%20Sochocky,them%20visible%20in%20the%20dark.
The Story Of The Radium Girls And Their Decades-Long Fight For Justice By Richard Stockton | Edited By John Kuroski:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/radium-girls
The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls: https://www.afacwa.org/the_forgotten_story_of_the_radium_girls_whose_deaths_saved_thousands_of_workers_lives
Radium Girls: Living Dead Women by: Arlene Balkansky: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/03/radium-girls-living-dead-women/
Grace Fryer: Women of History How a glow-in-the-dark woman saved lives by Shea Keating: https://medium.com/@sheakeatingwriting/grace-fryer-women-of-history-fdf245f52a42
For the Love of Pretty Things Robert R. Johnson: https://www.thebeliever.net/for-the-love-of-pretty-things/
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By Date FrightIn this episode Leonna tells Quinn the hallowing story of the discovery of radium, the women behind the moniker; The Radium Girls, and their fight for justice.
Follow for the next episode of Date Fright.
Sources:
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls
This Month in Physics History December 1898: The Curies Discover Radium : https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/200412/history.cfm
Radium Girls Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
Radium Jaw Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_jaw
The Radium Dial Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Dial_Company
“Get Me A Radium Highball!”: New York and the Radium Craze by Kate Burch: https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze
Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium by Nanny Fröman: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium/
Radium Girls: The Women Who Fought for Their Lives in a Killer Workplace by Don Vaughan: https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-a-killer-workplace
Facts and ideas from anywhere by William Clifford Roberts: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5595405/#:~:text=In%201913%2C%20Sabin%20von%20Sochocky,them%20visible%20in%20the%20dark.
The Story Of The Radium Girls And Their Decades-Long Fight For Justice By Richard Stockton | Edited By John Kuroski:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/radium-girls
The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls: https://www.afacwa.org/the_forgotten_story_of_the_radium_girls_whose_deaths_saved_thousands_of_workers_lives
Radium Girls: Living Dead Women by: Arlene Balkansky: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/03/radium-girls-living-dead-women/
Grace Fryer: Women of History How a glow-in-the-dark woman saved lives by Shea Keating: https://medium.com/@sheakeatingwriting/grace-fryer-women-of-history-fdf245f52a42
For the Love of Pretty Things Robert R. Johnson: https://www.thebeliever.net/for-the-love-of-pretty-things/