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 Ottawa.

In 1922, an exciting new opportunity came to the women of Ottawa, Illinois. The Radium Dial Company opened a factory and began hiring well-paid female employees by the dozen. Their job was to paint ...

State radiation regulators reacted to the Scribbler’s March inquiry about two local watch-manufacturing companies that used radioactive materials by initiating a comprehensive investigation of the ...

In the late 1910s—in an unnerving prologue to the atomic age—there was a brief mania for radium. The newly discovered element, with its seemingly magical radioactive properties, was hailed as one of ...

The March 14 Scribbler column asked whether Lancaster women painted radium on watch dials. The answer: Yes, they did, at two watch manufacturing plants. But the Scribbler wants to know more before he ...

Glowing hands shouldn’t be an occupational hazard, argue the women of These Shining Lives — nor should radium poisoning. This play chronicles the true story of four women who sought well-paid work at ...

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... Mae Keane, One Of The Last 'Radium Girls,' Dies At 107 ...

Description: This book is a fascinating read that has relevance to public health practitioners, occupational medical and health providers, health policy makers, health physicists -- in short, anyone ...

The technique was called lip pointing. They would put the small brush with camel hair bristles between their lips, twist it with their tongue and then dip it into a mixture of sulphite, water and ...