Marie Curie and Irene Joliot-Curie Read by Eve Rodsky
Rebel Girls
Rebel Girls
4.5 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:25.4 | Thanks for listening. Once upon a time, there were two women in a rickety blue van, driving straight into battle on the front |
| 0:47.1 | lines of World War I. These women weren't here to fight, though. They were here to help save soldiers lives. |
| 0:57.2 | Marie Curie, who was in the driver's seat, had designed this special blue van so it could hold an x-ray machine in the back, |
| 1:05.0 | along with an exam table, some darkroom equipment to help develop the x-ray pictures, |
| 1:11.0 | and an electrical generator called a dynamo so that they had enough electricity. |
| 1:17.5 | It was very crowded in there. |
| 1:20.6 | Once Marie found a safe space to park the van, her daughter Irene jumped into action. |
| 1:27.0 | Irene was only 17 years old, but she was just as fearless and determined as her mom. The two of them threw open the van |
| 1:36.3 | doors and started guiding wounded soldiers inside so they could be x-rayed and |
| 1:41.2 | examined. |
| 1:43.4 | At first the soldiers didn't know what was going on |
| 1:46.0 | or why these women were even there. |
| 1:48.8 | But Marie explained that she was the new director |
| 1:51.3 | of the Red Cross Radiology Unit and she knew what she was doing. |
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