OTTAWA, Ill. — Organizers say they now have nearly half the money they need to erect a monument to memorialize the “Radium Girls,” who once painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at a factory ...

In 1917, the military was looking for some way to make watches readable at night in the field, he said. “They got the idea to use radium to paint dial numbers and hands,” Suppan said.

Women painted radium on watch dials in a small, stand-alone factory building near Franklin & Marshall College, but not part of the Hamilton Watch Co.

The watch which made the greatest impression on me and provided a little bit of fascination during the night was the one with a radium dial.

This play chronicles the true story of four women who sought well-paid work at the Radium Dial watch factory in the 1920s and 1930s and fought for justice when they discovered that their employer ...

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 ...

The radium paint, which glowed in the dark, was applied to instruments, dials and watch displays that were shipped off to pilots fighting in World War I.

The book tells the personal histories of women who painted glow-in-the-dark numbers, using radium paint, in watch-dial “studios” during the Roaring 20s — a tale that until recently had been ...

Seattle-based microbrand Typsim built this handsome skin diver with some uncommon details, including a unique dial embellishment.

“The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” by Kate Moore; Sourcebooks (479 pages, $26.99) The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and ...