The Story of the Radium Girls | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

On the 20th of April, 1902, after years of hard work, Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolated a brand new element: radium. It was thought, at the time, that this new material might have all kinds of beneficial properties, and so radium was swiftly incorporated into a huge range of products: everything from makeup to ceramics to health tonics and jewellery. What wasn’t understood at that time was that radium was in fact quite deadly. 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - The Golden Age Of Radium 02:09 - The Work Of Dial Painters 04:50 - What Went Wrong? 08:32 - The Legacy Of Radium I tell the true stories behind some of history’s greatest disasters... but without sensationalism or disturbing imagery. Fascinating Horror is all about in-depth research, respectful storytelling, and learning what we can from the mistakes of the past. You might be surprised to discover just how much of today’s world is shaped by long-forgotten disasters from decades gone by.