In the 1920s, working-class women were hired to paint radium onto glowing watch dials — and told to sharpen the brush with their lips. Dozens... Mae Keane, One Of The Last 'Radium Girls,' Dies At 107 ...

Kate Moore's new book digs into the short, painful lives of the Radium Girls, who worked painting luminous dials on watches and clocks — and... Dark Lives Of 'The Radium Girls' Left A Bright Legacy ...

A century ago, glow-in-the-dark watches were an irresistible novelty. The dials, covered in a special luminous paint, shone all the time and didn’t require charging in sunlight. It looked like magic.

They may sound like a forgotten '80s new wave band, but the Radium Girls were actually young female employees who were hired in the early 20th century to paint watches with a special radium paint.

WHAT -- Just in time for Halloween, the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum and Barker Realty Team are partnering up with the Miss Laura's Brothel Museum to host an evening of painting, adult beverages and ...

The town of Ottawa, Ill., is banding together to honor the memories of watch dial painters who were poisoned by a radium paint in the town during the 1920s and 1930s. Piller’s father, William, is a ...

Jean Anne Gregorzek owns a small clock that glows with luminescent paint. It doesn’t tick, but she keeps it on her dresser anyway, to remember the grandmother she never met. Quinta Maggia McDonald ...

It’s a story that many New Jersey residents may not be familiar with – the story of young women in the 1920s who were sickened by factory conditions in the Garden State. Their story is being told in a ...

They painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at the U.S. Radium factory in Orange. Then their teeth began to fall out. The 1920s story of the “Radium Girls" of New Jersey is coming to the big screen in ...