A century ago, glow-in-the-dark watches were an irresistible novelty. The dials, covered in a special luminous paint, shone all the time and didn’t require charging in sunlight. It looked like magic.
Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois factory in the 1920s. Years later, they helped change workplace safety standards. In the early 1900s, radium was all ...
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 ...
Maybe the girls thought it was cool at first. They could walk through the night streets without worrying about streetlights guiding their way, because they were the light. People around town called ...
Set in the 1920's when little was known about the effects of radioactive substances, "Radium Girls" is a story of how negligence and prejudice can lead to tragedy. The dial painters slowly realized ...
Carla Clark | For The Republic Braden Huckaby, as Tom Kreider, at left, and Natalie Cantu, as Grace Fryer, look at wall paper samples for the nursery during a rehearsal for the North Drama’s ...
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