The Liberal High School Drama Department will be presenting the Play “Radium Girls” Next weekend at the James Maskus ...

When fourteen-year-old Katherine Schaub started work at the watch-dial factory of the Radium Luminous Material Corporation in Newark, New Jersey, in February 1917, she thought she was the luckiest ...

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used to come home glowing in the dark. Then they found that the exposure caused ...

Kate Moore (authorkatemoore) on BuzzFeed - I am the author of The Radium Girls, the incredible true story of the American women who stood up and fought for justice and in so doing changed the world.

Ethan Kruger Feb 3, 2025 Feb 3, 2025 Updated Feb 4, 2025 The Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the young women who used radium paint on watch faces in ...

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

The era is some time between 1917 and the early 1920s. At the center of this story is the Radium Luminous Material Corp., founded in New York in 1914. The company produced uranium from carnotite ...

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That possibility had occurred to him in consequence of observing the rapid rate at which radium decays ... others—uranium among them—in the same luminous envelope of vapor.