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 ...

But the application of radium that would bring it notoriety was its use in glow-in-the-dark paint. Frequently used to provide luminous readouts on clocks and watches, aircraft switches and instrument ...

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

The Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the young women who used radium paint ...

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.

Dials were illuminated using a paint containing radium-226 (Ra-226 ... It was used until the early 1970s in luminous paints for watches and aircraft instruments. The substance takes hundreds ...

There’s a burst of luminous colour in watch design at the moment, with sober blue and black dials conspicuously absent from recent ... first appeared as a replacement for radium, the colour palette ...