Women painting alarm clock faces at the Ingersoll factory in January 1932. Known as the "Radium Girls," these workers were putting their health at risk by lip-pointing the brush and ingesting ...

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.

Beginning in the 1910s, the girls instructed to put radium in their mouths didn't bat an eyelash. They worked for the United States Radium Corporation painting the numbers and hands on watch faces ...

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.

The radium-infused paint was a new invention in 1917. Though Pierre and Marie Curie had first identified the element in 1898, ...

Kate Moore's new book digs into the short, painful lives of the Radium Girls, who worked painting luminous dials on watches and clocks — and were poisoned by the glowing radium paint they used.

This paint does actually contain radium, and does not contain any phosphorus whatsoever. Fairness to Mr. Gardner and also to Mr. Whitney requires this correction and a publication of the facts.

Tickets are nearly sold out for Sip and Paint — Radium Girls. A painting party and presentation on the infamous Radium Girls. The event starts at 6 p.m. Oct. 26 at Miss Laura's Brothel Museum, 2 ...

Women painting alarm clock faces at the Ingersoll factory in January 1932. Known as the "Radium Girls," these workers were putting their health at risk by lip-pointing the brush and ingesting ...