Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A century ago, glow-in-the-dark watches were an irresistible novelty. The dials, covered in a special luminous paint, shone all ...

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 ...

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Through the first half of the 20th century in America, radium, a substance mined from the ground, was a source of fascination — it was used for everything from making watch dials glow in the dark, to ...

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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 ...

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 ...