In 1922, an exciting new opportunity came to the women of Ottawa, Illinois. The Radium Dial Company opened a factory and began hiring well-paid female employees by the dozen. Their job was to paint ...

Jean Anne Gregorzek owns a small clock that glows with luminescent paint. It doesn’t tick, but she keeps it on her dresser anyway, to remember the grandmother she never met. Quinta Maggia McDonald ...

Glowing hands shouldn’t be an occupational hazard, argue the women of These Shining Lives — nor should radium poisoning. This play chronicles the true story of four women who sought well-paid work at ...

In the 1920s, working-class women were hired to paint radium onto glowing watch dials — and told to sharpen the brush with their lips. Dozens... Mae Keane, One Of The Last 'Radium Girls,' Dies At 107 ...

A century ago, glow-in-the-dark watches were an irresistible novelty. The dials, covered in a special luminous paint, shone all the time and didn’t require charging in sunlight. It looked like magic.

The town of Ottawa, Ill., is banding together to honor the memories of watch dial painters who were poisoned by a radium paint in the town during the 1920s and 1930s. Piller’s father, William, is a ...

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 screen in ...

CHEYENNE — Inspired by a true story, “Radium Girls” takes the stage at Cheyenne’s Central High School on Oct. 24, 25 and 26 at 7 p.m. The play is based on the true story of the women and men who ...

Two movies about irradiated women in one year? Sure, why not. Radium Girls — now on Netflix — follows slightly on the heels of Amazon’s Radioactive, a bio of Marie Curie, the groundbreaking scientist ...

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