History's Most Dangerous Jobs (That People Actually Volunteered For)

History's Most Dangerous Jobs (That People Actually Volunteered For) From the Radium Girls of 1917 to the biorobots of Chernobyl — history is full of workers who paid with their lives so others wouldn't have to. This video explores some of the most dangerous and heartbreaking jobs in history, including the forlorn hope soldiers, powder monkeys, chimney sweep children, and the physicists who "tickled the dragon's tail." ☢️ Radium Girls | Chernobyl Liquidators | Demon Core | Phossy Jaw | Sandhogs | Powder Monkeys | Chimney Sweeps | Human Cannonballs | Forlorn Hope 📚 Sources & Further Reading: Clark, Claudia. Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform (1997) International Atomic Energy Agency. The Chernobyl Accident: Updating of INSAG-7 (1992) Kelly, Cynthia C. The Manhattan Project — Demon Core accounts, Atomic Heritage Foundation Rosen, William. Miracle Cure — caisson disease & Brooklyn Bridge construction Pott, Percivall. Chirurgical Observations (1775) — chimney sweep's cancer Lorinser, Friedrich Wilhelm — phossy jaw documentation (1839) Annie Besant & the Bryant and May strike: The Link newspaper (1888) U.S. Medal of Honor records — Battle of Vicksburg (1863), Battle of Mobile Bay (1863) #History #DarkHistory #RadiumGirls #Chernobyl #DemonCore #ForlornHope #PowderMonkeys #ChimneySweeps #PhossyJaw #Sandhogs #HumanCannonball #LostHistory #HistoryFacts #UntoldHistory #WorkingClassHistory #HistoryDocumentary #InterestingHistory #HiddenHistory #HistoricalFacts #YouTubeHistory