From lead to radium, there is a long history of strange, experimental and even dangerous make-up ingredients. Today's beauty products are no different, writes Amanda Smith, containing everything ...

Amelia “Mollie” Maggia was the first to die. The 19-year-old woman started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corp. in Orange, NJ, in 1917, and at first reveled in her job. It was ...

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 died within a few years, but Keane quit, and survived.

It’s against the law for employers to make you sick. Thank the "Radium Girls" for that. 100 years ago, New Jersey factory workers fought to hold companies accountable for radium poisoning.

The ‘radium girls’ painted clock dials to make them glow in the dark. For some, the experience was fatal. Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois ...

Radium has an abundance of about 1 part per trillion in the Earth's crust, according to Chemicool.Trace amounts of radium are found in uranium ore, because radium is created from the decay of the ...

Mrs. Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California's Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with "a can of beans, ...

Radium's use in clocks and watches was banned by the UK Radioactive Substances Act of 1960, enforced in 1963. From the Daily Herald Archive, a collection of over three million photographs.

In the 1930s, a German-Jewish chemist resettled his family in neutral Turkey. But his work on radioactive materials and poison gas was still of interest to the Nazi regime.

Radium Girls Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 42 minutes. In theaters and virtual cinemas. Please consult the guidelines outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before watching ...

U.S. Radium Corp. opened their factory in Orange, New Jersey, in 1917. Radium, a newly discovered element, was all the rage — used for making things glow in the dark and sold in tiny amounts to ...