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Source: NMSI/Science Museum/Ullstein-picture
1932: A long -term fatal profession – dials that shine in the dark are a trend in the twenties (admission from a British factory in 1932). The most important part of the light color is the radium. A radioactive fabric that was considered health -promoting, it is anything but that. Factory workers who work with the radium -based color every day are victims. Like the women who worked for the American US Radium Corporation during the First World War. Day after day, soon the women shone in the dark. Inside, the element destroyed its health: they licked the brush to sparkle it accordingly, taking the radium. In 1927, some workers who became famous as the Radium Girls finally filed a lawsuit against the US Radium Corporation.
