Dial painters at Radium Dial Co. in Ottawa, Illinois in the 1920s. Among the major luminescent watch dial makers across the country was the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois. Many of the ...

The Burton Leavitt Theatre will transform into the 1920s when “Radium Girls” takes the stage for its first performance Friday. The play, written by D.W. Gregory, tells the story of Grace Fryer, a dial ...

Moore tells the story of the young women who worked in radium-dial factories focusing on the United States Radium Corp. (USRC) in Orange, New Jersey starting in 1917 and the Radium Dial Company in ...

In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at ...

Radium tonics were popular among the wealthy; the girls who worked at the Radium Dial Company plant were told that the radium they worked with would “put roses on their cheeks.” So Catherine ...

The story follows Grace Fryer, played beautifully by Alison Wotherspoon, from starting her job at the radium dial factory at the tender age of 15 to her valiant fight against a big corporation who ...

The play's setting is mostly 1920s New Jersey, where females received 47 cents per hour — good pay at the time — to paint "radium dials." These dials were on certain instruments and painted ...

This led to the tragedy of the radium dial painters in New Jersey – an all too familiar story of the promise of profit over safety, and denial of the facts. Factory workers, mostly young girls ...

Radium decays by alpha-ray emission to the noble ... The symptoms in this group of 12 dial painters (with the exception of 01–008) are consequently expected to result almost entirely from ...