They may sound like a forgotten '80s new wave band, but the Radium Girls were actually young female employees who were hired ...

They painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at the U.S. Radium factory in Orange. Then their teeth began to fall out. The 1920s story of the “Radium Girls" of New Jersey is coming to the big ...

Purpose: The author identifies a need for the telling of the radium dial tragedy and how it formed the impetus for further use of radium -- a highly radioactive substance that subsequently was ...

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Radium Girls’ on Netflix, a Boilerplate Drama About the Girls Who Fought Big Radium By John Serba Published Jan. 19, 2021, 2:00 p.m. ET ...

This Women's History Month, we celebrate the Radium Girls. Employees of watch factories in the 1920s, their sacrifices changed the course of U.S. labor law.

With a cast of 18 students, Bishop Ireton High School will be presenting “Radium Girls,” a story by D.W. Gregory about female factory workers in the 1920s who contract radiation poisoning from ...

Although selling fake radium cures could get you sued — and ingesting real ones could kill you —entrepreneurs continued to exploit the magical element. A Vogue ad for Radior from May 15, 1919.

D.W. Gregory’s 1999 play “Radium Girls,” now in a new production at Orange Coast College, tells the story of five women behind the 1928 court case against the United States Radium ...

Other than the failed effort to save Judge Wilson’s eyesight, the UC physics department mostly used their entubed radium sample to irradiate hundreds of students through hands-on classroom ...

Unlike other glow plug-ins, Radium Glow uses shapes to generate a glow. Simple circles and star shapes are included, along with a library of 10 other shapes to enable sophisticated glow effects.

Despite the stylistic glitches, Radium Girls proves engrossing, thanks to its powerful real-life tale and the excellent performances by leads King and Quinn, who make us fully care about their ...