They made more money than other workers in the United States Radium Corp. factory because of the precision it took to paint glowing numbers on watch dials. When they walked home, they glowed ...

the real Radium Girls were young women hired by the U.S. Radium Corporation to paint glow-in-the dark watch dials at factories in Illinois, Connecticut, and New Jersey in the 1920s. The paint got ...

In the 1920s, a group of women using radium to paint watch dials unknowingly sealed ... focusing on one woman’s battle against the U.S. Radium Corporation. Actress Sylvia Pancake portrays ...

Five young New Jersey women who were poisoned while painting luminous watch dials ... of radium paint, died in New Jersey, his teeth and fingers all gone (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Contact us at ...

The tech was cutting-edge at the time, and with the need for legible watch dials for ... women — known as the “Radium Girls” — sought compensation from the United States Radium Corporation, a major ...

Radium Corporation. Daily they took up watch dials and painted the blind numerals ... Trench mouth is one type of this disease. Contact us at letters@time.com ...