If I had a watch or clock with a radium dial, I`d get rid of it, probably to a responsible collector, one with lead shorts. But the chances that you have a radium clock are slim, unless it is very ...

The radium-dial people were of unique interest to the Atomic Energy Commission at the time because plutonium had just been created and was thought to be very dangerous,” said Robert E. Rowland ...

Particles of radium and radioactive watch dials were left there almost a century ago by young women who swallowed radium-laden paint used by the Waterbury Clock Co. from 1919 to 1927.

The work involved using luminous radium paint to make the numbers on clocks, watches and aeronautic dials glow in the dark. Back then, radium wasn’t considered to be dangerous in small doses.

Kate Brown reviews The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice. by Kate Moore Women using radium paint on alarm clock faces at the Ingersoll factory in 1932.

NEW HAVEN >> Those radium painted dials on millions of wristwatches produced in the city at the New Haven Clock Company are once again a “hot” item. An environmental review of the long-closed ...

When the war ended, the contract did, too. Then Radium Dial, a subsidiary of U.S. Radium, started making dials for watches in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York.

"These Shining Lives" is Melanie Marnich's account of the workaday world at the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Ill., in the 1920s and '30s, when women in the workplace were still fairly novel, and ...

The old clock stopped, but time moved on. Like the clock, we mark moments—until one day we stop, too, while time itself ...

The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and clock faces with luminous paint. The numbers on the wristwatches and clock dials were so tiny, the workers needed a ...