Purpose: The author identifies a need for the telling of the radium dial tragedy and how it formed the impetus for further use of radium -- a highly radioactive substance that subsequently was ...

But by the 1920s, radium's health risks - including anemia and bone cancer - were better known. Mullner says the last people to acknowledge its dangers were often the owners of radium dial factories.

They may sound like a forgotten '80s new wave band, but the Radium Girls were actually young female employees who were hired in the early 20th century to paint watches with a special radium paint.

The newest show opening at the Performing Artists Collective Alliance (PACA) is sure to leave you glowing with excitement. PACA’s latest show, Radium Girls, will open this ...

Particles of radium and radioactive watch dials were left there almost a century ago by young women who swallowed radium-laden paint used by the Waterbury Clock Co. from 1919 to 1927.

They painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at the U.S. Radium factory in Orange. Then their teeth began to fall out. The 1920s story of the “Radium Girls" of New Jersey is coming to the big ...

This antique radium clock, once a stunning example of vintage craftsmanship, is brought back to life through an intricate restoration process. Over time, its radium-painted dial and delicate mechanics ...

“It’s based on a true story of the girls in the 1920s who painted the luminescent watch dials,” said Director Joanna Henry. “They painted it with paint to make it glow.

"Radium Girls' is a "ghost play" that tells of memories of what happened 100 years ago to young women painting radium dials, director says.