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 ...

The workers knew as early as 1917 that radium was causing their health problems, but executives at the US Radium Corporation encouraged doctors to instead diagnose the women with syphilis in an ...

A co-worker with him for the U. S. Radium Corp., Dr. Edward Lehman, died much more quickly from the radium poisoning. Only two others, French researchers, have died similar deaths.

Two randy city subway workers went off the rails while on the clock, repeatedly cozying up in a car — and tipping off officials to their illicit deeds by keeping the windshield shade on while it ...

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 ...