Yes I read the book - it said some of the workers actually glowed in the dark - you could see their skeletons through their skin.
This was before they seemed sick.
The radium glow was thought to be healthy.
There were people who knew that was a lie, the bosses, but they of course didn;t say it.
They at one point told the workers not to ‘point the brushes’ with their lips, and gave them rubber doohickeys to do that with.
But the workers didn’t like those and went back to lips.
The bosses knew all this and didn’t enforce it, since that made the work faster.
The book is just called “Radium Girls”. It’s fairly recent. Great book, terrible story.
Emiriya, welcome to BLF! I’m curious how you found us. Have you been lurking for a while? Surely this thread didn’t pull you in!
The tape is probably just glow-in-the-dark tape. The listing has a lot of dubious claims, some of which seem to contradict each other. But, in the end, it’s probably the same stuff we’re used to seeing. You light it up with some other light source, and it re-radiates that light for some time afterward.
Language. Often an issue with these listings. They mean “no need of power energy” in that you don’t need electrified light to do the job of the glow tape. Not that the tape doesn’t need light to start glowing! That would be ridiculous.
Btw, 10mm width is a bit narrow. Some people overlook that, only paying attention to the length of the roll. 19mm or wider is better, to cover most applications (for a contiguous piece you trim, versus assembling multiple strip pieces).
For those interested, here is a glow-in-the-dark powder that is capable of being charged up by body heat. It is claimed to be the world’s glowiest glow pigment.
Because I know this stuff exists, as well as some other products I’ve seen, I don’t have any trouble believing the glow tape can show some amount of light all night long to someone with dark-adjusted eyes.
I guess her sig line shows how she found us… :person_facepalming:
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BTW, the GITD I bought when started this BUDGET hobby ( :person_facepalming: ) lasts glowing about 8 hours, sometimes more (I just notice it if I sleep more time and wake up and see the lights in my bed table), after the last light has been shine onto it!
The seller had a similar image in the page, advertising it!
Yes, but I’m currently off-grid with work tried ordering some earlier but I’ve forgotten my AliExpress password and the internet seems too slow to reset it! :person_facepalming: