So around World War I, when manufacturers started looking for workers to paint clock faces and other equipment with radium to make them glow in the dark, they had no problem finding employees.

In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey. The pay was ...

Workers also began to paint their fingernails with the glowing substance. The material in question: radium, which, when mixed with zinc sulfide (a phosphor) produced a bright glow. Seiko is known for ...

When the girls mixed the paint, radium dust got everywhere, making everything glow, including the girls. Dials were painted with fine camel-hair brushes, but the bristles tended to spread.

“They painted it with paint to make it glow. And in order to get the fine ... as a result they were ingesting radium and they started getting ill and many of them died.” Henry, who has been ...

It is so radioactive that it gives off a pale blue glow. Yet it would still take the Curies another three years to produce a pure radium salt. Having originally worked with 100g of the ore ...

The subtitle of the book is How The Glow Of Radium Lit A Path For Women In Science. And certainly, it's an eyeopener as to just how crucial some of these women were in pioneering work around ...

HOLLAND — A group of area teens will be performing a play showcasing their acting talents at The Holland Community Theatre the next two weekends. The show “Radium Girls,” detailing the ...

Radium, an element discovered by Marie Curie and her husband in France, is a radioactive element known for its bluish-white glow in the dark. In the early 20th century, when the harmful effects of ...