The Rolex Datejust celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2025 ✓ Check out five facts you (probably) didn't know about the watch ...

That’s a shame because the true story of real radium girls, a chapter of labor reform in early 20th century America, needs to be told. Tickets for “Radium Girls” are $13 -$28 at www ...

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity and luminous watches the latest rage — until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease.

Yucaipa High School’s Thunderbird Theatre Company will present “Radium Girls” 7 p.m. Nov. 10-12 and 1 and 7 p.m. Nov. 13 in the school’s Multipurpose Room. Tickets are $8 in advance ...

A rich radium deposit is one which yields 90 to 120 milligrams (.00315 to .0042 oz.) nearly pure radium bromide salt per ton of concentrated ore (50 tons of crude ore).

Tests show higher-than-normal radium levels in Colorado's Perry Park 02:43. Neighbors in a Douglas County community are worried about the safety of their drinking water.

Abbe managed to obtain 150 mg of radium salts from the Curies in 1903, before the cost and demand for the element skyrocketed (ultimately depriving Curie herself of a ready supply). Abbe ...

Silbert did watch repair work for jewelers and manufactured dials. It used radium-based paint to manufacture luminous watch dials and hands from 1954 to 1971, according to an EPA news release.