In the 1920s when radium paint was introduced into the manufacture of clock dials in a New Jersey factory, the dangers of the newly developed material were still to be discovered.

Literally, the work was light as the main job the young ladies were given was to apply glowing paint to the faces of clocks, instrument gauges, and wristwatches for the United States Radium Company.

Delicate hands deftly applied radium paint, brushes flying from dials to the paint to their lips. The technique both saved money and doomed young painters. Though radiation poisoning would claim ...

In the 1920s, a group of women using radium to paint watch dials unknowingly sealed their fate, exposing themselves to a ...

The McClellan Theatre performed the classic Radium Girls play on March 13, 14 and 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. “It is being done at this particular time in recognition of Women’s History Month,” Dennis Zuelke, ...