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 part of the last century, young women in Illinois were hired to paint watch and clock dials with a special ...

This paint does actually contain radium, and does not contain any phosphorus whatsoever. Fairness to Mr. Gardner and also to Mr. Whitney requires this correction and a publication of the facts.

The U.S. Radium Corporation — called American Radium in the film — claimed the radium paint that girls and young women applied to watch dials was harmless, even as men who worked with radium ...

One of the most vocal Radium Girls was Grace Fryer, who began working at U.S. Radium Corp. in Orange when she was 18. Her great-nephew Arthur Fryer said she fought for justice for the New Jersey ...

The radium paint, which glowed in the dark, was applied to instruments, dials and watch displays that were shipped off to pilots fighting in World War I. Heinz Dietrich Suppan/Handout.

It’s taken them nearly a century, but "Radium Girls” will have their story told on the big screen. A group of young women who were pioneers in the fight for workplace safety and public health ...

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 1920 s and 1930 s.. The campaign to build a ...

The radium paint, which glowed in the dark, was applied to instruments, dials and watch displays that were shipped off to pilots fighting in World War I. Heinz Dietrich Suppan/Handout.