“Hmmm ... maybe THAT’S the reason for taking the radium dialed watches off of the wrists of normal, everyday Americans ... we were bursting with brilliance in the ‘50’s”
They stopped production because they ‘painters’ were ingesting the radium not because of safety of the wearers.
Take a good product off of the market because the monkeys were eating the paint
Wouldn't a $2 fan and a 10 cent paper mask have helped ?
The tritium on my Rolex from the 1980s no longer glows in the dark.
The painters were twirling the tips on their paint brushes on their tongues to give the brush a sharp enough point to paint with the radium. That was later found to be a bad idea.
The painters who dotted spots of radium on watch faces were getting horrible disfiguring and deathly cancers of the mouth because they “tipped” their paint brushes by touching the brush to their lips.