Radium’s “incredible glow” Charlotte Nevins Purcell was 16 years old when she took a job at the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois in the 1920s.

Kate Moore's account of the sufferings and struggles of the Radium Girls — factory workers who were poisoned by the glowing radium paint they worked with — reads like a true crime narrative.

Deadly Glow. The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy . Reviewer: Linda Simoni-Wastila, PhD. Disclosures. November 13, 2003. By Ross Mullner, PhD, MPH American Public Health Association $32.00 ...

Amelia “Mollie” Maggia was the first to die. The 19-year-old woman started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corp. in Orange, NJ, in 1917, and at first reveled in her job. It was ...

They would, quite literally, glow. During World War I and the years thereafter, dozens of teenage girls and young women worked in radium-dial factories, painting glow-in-the-dark numbers onto ...

Young women at work in the US Radium factory in Orange, New Jersey in the mid-1920s. Many became ill and died after working with radioactive glow-in-the-dark paint.

They are scrubbing down Apartment 507. Men and women in white lab coats, protected by plastic masks, are vacuuming radioactive dust from the wooden floorboards and scraping radium off the walls. Pa… ...

Using Radium 226 for clock and watch dial luminosity became popular in the 1920s - before the profound risk to health was fully understood. Workers would often lick the paintbrush to achieve a ...