The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...

In the early 1920s, the hot new gadget was a wristwatch with a glow-in-the-dark dial. “Made possible by the magic of radium!” bragged one advertisement. And it did seem magical. Radium was the latest ...

The girls at the factories in New Jersey and rural Illinois used a special technique to point their paintbrushes. It involved moistening the radium encrusted brushes with their mouths. Moore breezily ...

“‘Radium Girls’ is a historical fiction production,” said Matt Taylor, a theater and English teacher at EHS. “It is based on a dark episode in history when these young women paint glowing dials on ...