The Radium Girls by Kate Moore PDF Download

December 21, 2019 Biographies, Popular

Download The Radium Girls by Kate Moore PDF eBook free. “The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” is an incredible book that tells the true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger.

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“The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” is a compelling and meticulously researched book. Kate Moore is the author of this great book. This book engages all the reader from start to end of the page. In this book, Kate Moore describes the women of the early twentieth century, the girls and women are doing jobs in America that could have involved something exciting and brand new, radium. According to the companies, these young women completely harmless. But after sometimes the truth about radium and its assorted isotopes is all too well known.

Radium was widely heralded as a wondrous new substance after it was first isolated by the Curies. The work was pleasant and sociable, the woman sat around tables painting, moistening the thin brushes in their mouth before they dipped them into the paint, eating, chatting and drinking while they worked. The salary was good and the work was easy, but some of the women started having strange pains in their mouths and bones. Their teeth would loosen and fall out and their jaws, legs, and ankles would develop permanent aches. All in all, The Radium Girls is a must-read book for all working women.