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

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The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became ...

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I noticed his watch immediately. I usually notice watches immediately. But his was especially noticeable. It was a Rolex. I ...

One of the first nice things my dad gave me when I was in grade school in Ashdown, Arkansas, was a watch. It was a pocket ...

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The watches were sold at hardware and other stores. It was called a radium clock. The dials and numbers glowed in the dark. When they were first made, people were amazed by them. They were also ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday ...