In the 1920s, female factory workers in many parts of the USA were told that ingesting radium was safe, leading to the deaths ...

Mixed with the right kind of paint, radium would luminesce after exposure to light, so that a watch face painted with the ...

Based on true events, sisters Bessie and Jo Cavallo paint dial watches at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. When Jo's health starts to decline, Bessie starts to question if Radium is safe ...

Silbert did watch repair work for jewelers and manufactured dials. It used radium-based paint to manufacture luminous watch dials and hands from 1954 to 1971, according to an EPA news release.