OTTAWA, Ill. — Organizers say they now have nearly half the money they need to erect a monument to memorialize the “Radium Girls,” who once painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at a factory in Ottawa.
State radiation regulators reacted to the Scribbler’s March inquiry about two local watch-manufacturing companies that used radioactive materials by initiating a comprehensive investigation of the ...
The March 14 Scribbler column asked whether Lancaster women painted radium on watch dials. The answer: Yes, they did, at two watch manufacturing plants. But the Scribbler wants to know more before he ...
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 ...
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.
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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