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.

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 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 ...

Mae Keane did not care much for the job she had during the summer of 1924, painting radioactive radium onto watch dials to make them glow in the dark. The pay was 8 cents a dial and Keane, then 18 ...