Dayton’s Carroll High School Students are retelling a true, inspiring story “Radium Girls” this weekend! In 1926, radium was ...

Early this November, Burr and Burton Academy’s performing arts department will be presenting the play, Radium Girls.

Early this November, Burr and Burton Academy’s performing arts department will be presenting the play Radium Girls.

Inspired by a true story, the play follows a watch dial painter who fights for her day in court after she and her co-workers ...

Following a pair of lighthearted comedies, Buena Vista High School’s Trident Theatre Company is taking on a more somber, ...

When fourteen-year-old Katherine Schaub started work at the watch-dial factory of the Radium Luminous Material Corporation in Newark, New Jersey, in February 1917, she thought she was the luckiest ...

Have you ever marveled how your watch glows in the dark ... he sought an alternative to radium-activated luminous compounds. Our solution was the invention of a tritium-activated glow-in-the ...

If you exercise without tracking it, did you exercise at all? Don’t take the risk of missing a discipline: strap the best running watch to your wrist for a guaranteed calorie count while you’re doing ...

The watches that Catherine and her co-workers painted had glow-in-the-dark numbers, a feature made possible by the discovery of radium, the new wonder element. The health benefits of this amazing ...

Sometimes entire families of sisters worked together in a radium "studio." Hundreds of women made an income by painting watches and military dials with radium. Although radium studio work sounds ...