This antique radium clock, once a stunning example of vintage craftsmanship, is brought back to life through an intricate restoration process. Over time, its radium-painted dial and delicate mechanics ...

RADIUM GIRLS tells the true story of the radium factory workers who fought against corporate corruption in 1920s New Jersey. Clock dial factories instructed the all-female workforce to lick the ...

Workers would often lick the paintbrush to achieve a finer point ... Radium's use in clocks and watches was banned by the UK ...

It’s those young women workers’ story that got told last week when Rosslyn Academy, Nairobi’s Gigiri produced DW Gregory’s play, Radium Girls, which is based on the book by Kate Moss, and ...

Two years ago a ‘radium clock’ was constructed for the Chicago Radium Institute similar to the original one described by Strutt (Phil. Mag., 1903). Three milligrams of radium sulphate ...