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Instrument dials painted with radium-based paint
Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Radium dials
Radium_dial
American female radiation poisoning victims (1917–1978)
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint
Radium_Girls
Defunct American company
The Radium Dial Company was one of a few now defunct United States companies, along with the United States Radium Corporation, involved in the painting
Radium_Dial_Company
Former occupational disease caused by radium, resulting in deformation of the jawbones
subsequent absorption of radium into the bones of radium dial painters. It also affected those consuming radium-laden patent medicines. The condition is similar
Radium_jaw
US company and Superfund site
the United States Army for use by soldiers. U.S. Radium workers, especially women who painted the dials of watches and other instruments with luminous paint
United States Radium Corporation
United_States_Radium_Corporation
2008 play written by Melanie Marnich
Marnich. It is based on the true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial Company - a watch factory based in Ottawa, Illinois. The play showcases
These_Shining_Lives
Radioactive luminous radium paint produced in the early 20th century
but was not the only radium-painting business in the United States. Other big names in the early 1900s include the Radium Dial Company and the Luminous
Undark
Chemical element with atomic number 88 (Ra)
filed against the United States Radium Corporation by five dying "Radium Girls" – dial painters who had painted radium-based luminous paint on the components
Radium
American dial painter and Radium Girl
1899 – 27 October 1933) was an American dial painter and Radium Girl, who sued U.S. Radium after suffering radium poisoning while employed painting watch
Grace_Fryer
2016 history book by Kate Moore
Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women is a bestselling book by English author Kate Moore which chronicles the American watch dial painting
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The_Radium_Girls:_The_Dark_Story_of_America's_Shining_Women
Light produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation
radium emits penetrating gamma rays, which can pass through the metal and glass of a watch dial, and skin. A typical older radium wristwatch dial has
Radioluminescence
2018 American drama film
grandfather in New Jersey. Both sisters work at American Radium, where they paint watch dials. One day, Bessie meets Walter White, a young communist and
Radium_Girls_(film)
Radioactive quack device
health risk. Radithor Radioactive quackery Ross Mullner. Deadly glow: the radium dial worker tragedy. American Public Health Association, 1999. Original from
Radium_ore_Revigator
American amateur golfer (1880–1932)
radioactive mesothorium (Ra-228).[failed verification] Dr. Evans also studied radium dial painters and was able to study one whose intake was similar to, but somewhat
Eben_Byers
City in Illinois, United States
Radium Dial Company (RDC) moved from Peru, Illinois to a former high school building in Ottawa. The company employed hundreds of women called Radium girls
Ottawa,_Illinois
American musical artist (born 1955)
composing the score for her 1987 film Radium City—a documentary about the women who worked for the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois in the 1920s—for
Tim_Cappello
Paints that glow in the dark
they could be read in the dark. Radium is a radiological hazard, emitting gamma rays that can penetrate a glass watch dial and into human tissue. During
Luminous_paint
Topics referred to by the same term
Radium girl may refer to: The Radium Girls, female workers who painted glowing radium watch dials in the 1920s and suffered from radium jaw and death
Radium_girl
American pathologist (1883–1954)
1954) was an American pathologist who identified radium as the cause of cancer and death among watch dial painters, and also coined the term punch drunk
Harrison_Stanford_Martland
Photoluminescent pigment
— different named strontium aluminate–based phosphorescent pigments Radium dial "NEMOTO & CO., LTD. | Products & Services". Archived from the original
Super-LumiNova
American brand of Swiss-made watches
self-winding with a power reserve gauge, an unbreakable crystal, and a radium dial and was water and shock resistant. In 1953, Zodiac introduced the Sea
Zodiac_Watches
Ceramics containing uranium oxide
In addition to its medical usage, radium was used in the 1920s and 1930s for making watch, clock and aircraft dials. Because it takes approximately three
Uranium_tile
Agent directly involved in causing cancer
emitters with high atomic weight Bone (they are bone seekers) Liver Nuclear fuel processing Radium dial manufacturing Unless otherwise specified, ref is:
Carcinogen
X-ray fluoroscope machines installed in shoe stores 1920s-1970s
1927 paper showing genetic effects, and the incidence of bone cancer in radium dial painters of the same time period. However, there was not enough data
Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
Military unit
equipment, such as night vision goggles, electronic circuit boards, and radium-dial instrumentation. The depot was deactivated after the findings of the
Sacramento_Army_Depot
Austrian watch company
introduction of a so-called "night design", the Radiolite featuring a luminous radium dial. In 1917 the company produced another popular watch with seven jewels
Ingersoll_Watch_Company
Isotope of radium
more easily available alternatives. Until the 1960s, radium was used in luminous paint for watch dials and aircraft instruments. As a radioactive material
Radium-226
Cancer caused by ionizing radiation exposure
Prize for his findings. Radiation was soon linked to bone cancer in the radium dial painters, but this was not confirmed until large-scale animal studies
Radiation-induced_cancer
1946 nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll
Blandy was aware of the health problems of radium dial painters who ingested microscopic amounts of radium in the 1920s, and the fact that plutonium was
Operation_Crossroads
2021 novel by Laird Hunt
job at the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois. There she befriends Janie and Marie. The workers at the factory paint radioactive radium dye onto clock
Zorrie_(novel)
Radioactive fallout exposure study and experiment
deliberately exposed the Marshallese to observe the effects. Like the American radium dial painters of the 1920s and the Japanese of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
Project_4.1
Devices and processes that produce light
an image when X-rays strike a fluorescent screen Radium dial – Instrument dials painted with radium-based paint Scintillation counter – Instrument for
List_of_light_sources
Laboratory at the University of Chicago
radiation poisoning had become well known due to the experience of the radium dial painters. When it became certain that nuclear reactors would involve
Metallurgical_Laboratory
American physicist
work checking radium-dial watches used by the army, and then transferred to the radium section as an assistant physicist. The Bureau's radium laboratory
Alice_Armstrong
Anthology crime comic
pick him up when a prospector locates the body from the signal in the radium dial of his wife's watch. Come Clean! Al Williamson When an innocent man is
Crime_SuspenStories
Russian military compass
older production examples are slightly radioactive because of Radium-226 used in their dials. Newer ones, with teal or white paint color, use the non-radioactive
Adrianov_compass
Study of effects of radiation on living tissues
States, the experience of the so-called Radium Girls, where thousands of radium-dial painters contracted oral cancers— but no cases of acute radiation syndrome—
Radiobiology
Luminous paint applied to watches
on watch dials. There are some people who "relume" watches, or replace faded lume. Formerly, lume consisted mostly of radium; however, radium is radioactive
Lume
American engineer
painful, though the patient was not cured. He invented the luminous Radium dial for watches and other instruments, widely used in World War 1 and thereafter
William_Joseph_Hammer
1960 film
after discovering he can disable the device by waving his wristwatch's radium dial at it. He goes for help, but leaves Sally behind, forcing him to return
The_Cape_Canaveral_Monsters
Radiation was generally believed to have bactericidal properties, so when radium was discovered, in addition to treatments similar to those used with x-rays
History_of_radiation_therapy
Radiation workers health and labor issues
cancer. Radium was used as an alleged medical "cure" for a variety of ailments, as well as to create luminous clock and instrument dials. Radium-dial painters
Nuclear_labor_issues
American physician
treated with radium as part of medical treatment, or had ingested radium as radium dial painters. The study found that X-ray films detected radium in their
Louis_Hempelmann
Early wristwatch design used in World War I
were of virtually identical style with an enamel dial, wide white numerals and a luminescent radium hour hand. Often they did not bear the name of the
Trench_watch
Town in Fife, Scotland
that contains debris from Second World War aircraft that originally had radium dials. In September 2023, SEPA announced that the operation to remove the contamination
Dalgety_Bay
Silver, added to zinc sulfide to produce a phosphor/scintillator used in radium dials, spinthariscopes, and as a common blue phosphor in color CRTs, and to
Activator_(phosphor)
Luminescent substance
create luminescent paint for dials of watches and instruments (radium dials). Between 1913 and 1950 radium-228 and radium-226 were used to activate a phosphor
Phosphor
Italian luxury watch manufacturer
Figlio produced only the dials for these watches. Panerai dials were rendered luminous with Radiomir, a highly radioactive radium-based self-luminous compound
Panerai
Chemical compound
radium is applied on the surface of the dial plate, etc to give self luminous properties. e.g. by immersing it in an aq soln of promethium or radium chlorate
Radium_chlorate
The company supplied radium to the United States Radium Corporation for use in their watch dials. The company was established by Joseph M. Flannery
Standard_Chemical_Company
Military equipment
which would be adversely effected if so treated. A black, non-ferrous metal dial with numerals and graduations in white, a triangular hour indice at 12 was
US_military_watches
Personal timepiece
30 October 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2012. "Alan's Vintage Watches". Radium Watch Dial Pattern. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved
Watch
use of radium in the watch industry, where it was used for luminous dials. He published an article on the clinical picture of the so-called radium jaw.
History of radiation protection
History_of_radiation_protection
relatively small number were released with luminous numbers, accompanied by radium-filled minute, hour, and sweep second hands for low-light conditions. The
Gallet_Clamshell
American oral surgeon (1883–1962)
“radium jaw” in a patient that worked as a watch-dial painter in which radium was used to achieve a glow. The story is told in the book The Radium Girls
Theodor_Blum
World's first submarine circumnavigation
sensors detected a radiation leak. It was subsequently determined the radium dials on three wristwatches were the cause for the alarm, and once removed
Operation_Sandblast
Retrieved 2010-10-30. "RADIUM PAINT TAKES ITS INVENTOR'S LIFE; Dr. Sabin A. von Sochocky Ill a Long Time, Poisoned by Watch Dial Luminant. 13 BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS
List of inventors killed by their own invention
List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_invention
Line of sports watches by Rolex
of radium paint for the luminous indices, switching to safer tritium-infused paint. In 1965–1966, Rolex discontinued using gilt/silver gilt dials on the
Rolex_Submariner
Former British radiopharmaceutical manufacturer
extraction of radium from radium concentrates in 1940, under Walter Patrick Grove. Over the next four years over 500 kilograms of radium bromide was produced
Amersham_plc
1987 studio album by Either/Orchestra
Dial "E" is the first album by the Either/Orchestra recorded in 1986 and released by the Accurate Records label in 1987. Doxy (Sonny Rollins) – 5:14 Nicole
Dial_"E"
Dial painter, Grace Fryer, as well as four other women sued U.S. Radium for $250,000. However, this lawsuit was unsuccessful because of U.S. Radium's
Gaps in regulation of chemical agents
Gaps_in_regulation_of_chemical_agents
American drummer (born 1956)
Good (1992) Cure for Pain (1993) The Night (2000) Either/Orchestra Dial "E" (1987) Radium (1988) The Half-Life of Desire (1990) Joe Morris Sweatshop (1990)
Jerome_Deupree
British watch company
logo's dial placement was shifted from the 9 o'clock position to 12 o’clock. Over time, the brand began phasing out the wordmark from the dial entirely
Christopher_Ward_(watchmaker)
1988 studio album by Either/Orchestra
Radium is an album by the Either/Orchestra recorded in 1987 and 1988 and released by the Accurate Records label in 1988. Radium was nominated a Boston
Radium (Either Orchestra album)
Radium_(Either_Orchestra_album)
Subject of radiation experiment (1887–1966)
inside the body because they are alpha particle emitters. Unlike the case of radium, which can be detected quite easily, there are no gamma rays to detect from
Albert_Stevens
Street 1937 10th 0 1 Ready, Willing, and Able 1937 10th 0 1 Romance of Radium 1937 10th 0 1 Shall We Dance 1937 10th 0 1 Should Wives Work? 1937 10th
List of Academy Award–nominated films
List_of_Academy_Award–nominated_films
Type of luminous paint
Takeuchi, Yasumitsu Aoki and Takashi Matsuzawa as a safe replacement for radium-based luminous paints. The invention was patented in 1994 by Nemoto & Co
Lumibrite
Use of gaseous tritium to create visible light
self-powered lighting. Radium was used to make self-luminous paint from the early 20th century to about 1970. Promethium briefly replaced radium as a radiation
Tritium_radioluminescence
1911 novel by Hugo Gernsback
Eyeglasses Basically X-ray specs that really work, except they can only detect radium-infused elements through solid matter. Pulsating Polarized Ether Wave Basically
Ralph_124C_41+
Swiss luxury watchmaker
silver and a white or black porcelain dial. It also featured large numerals filled with the radioactive substance, radium; a material that glows under low
Patria_(watchmaker)
indicating low levels of radiation coming from four radium wrist watches. On the wall was a blue radium clock dial that was frozen at 5:30 a.m., July 16, 1945
Critical_Assembly
American chemist (1869–1937)
laboratory for the refining of mesothorium (from monazite ore) and radium (from discarded watch dials). It was a unique source of thorium and was resorted to by
Herman_Schlundt
food to mentally disabled children or conscientious objectors, inserting radium rods into the noses of schoolchildren, deliberately releasing radioactive
Unethical human experimentation in the United States
Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
American professor and physicist
leukemia at the age of 49. His name was added to the Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations erected in Hamburg, Germany. "Leah Rinne Hamilton"
Joseph_Gilbert_Hamilton
British writer
Hoof (1911) A South Sea Buccaneer (1911) The Radium Terrors (1911) A Door in the Desert (1927) The Moon-Dial (1928) The Fatal Call (1929) Madonna Island
Albert_Dorrington
Nuclear waste category
allowed to be disposed of in this way include glow-in-the-dark watches (radium) and smoke detectors (americium). LLW should not be confused with high-level
Low-level_waste
Former Royal Naval Air Station in Fife, Scotland
(SEPA) concluded that luminising of aircraft instrument dials using paint containing Radium-226 was routinely undertaken at HMS Merlin. This was common
RNAS_Donibristle
City in Wisconsin, United States
pollution and a number have gone dry. Water drawn from an aquifer reached radium levels exceeding federal standards. One of the most important "firsts" in
Waukesha,_Wisconsin
"The Adventure of the Dartmoor Bungalow" "The Lady on the Stairs" "The Radium Thieves" "In the House of the Enemy" "The Yellow Jasmine Mystery" "The Chess
Agatha_Christie_bibliography
American nuclear physicist (1907–1995)
Late Effects of Internally Deposited Mixtures of Mesothorium and Radium in Twelve Dial Painters". New England Journal of Medicine. 265 (21): 1023–1028
Robley_D._Evans_(physicist)
American reality television series episodes
board game, which inspires Chumlee to create his own board game; a 1920s radium crock; and two Kill Bill swords signed by David Carradine, who played Bill
List_of_Pawn_Stars_episodes
Device that controls current between electrodes
Lead-210 (Pb-210) Radium-226 (Ra-226) Thorium-232 (Th-232) Examples include the Western Electric 346B tube, which contains radium-226, and the Zellweger
Vacuum_tube
Chemical element with atomic number 92 (U)
aircraft dials. This left a prodigious quantity of uranium as a waste product, since it takes three tonnes of uranium to extract one gram of radium. This
Uranium
Artillery computers used by the U.S. Army
reason for a lack of surviving examples of early units was the use of radium on the dials. As a result they were classified as hazardous waste and were disposed
Gun_data_computer
Geiger counter
Instruction and Maintenance Manual for the Lionel Model 6B indicates that a "Radium D+E beta source" with an approximate half-life of 22 years is present under
CD_V-700
Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
industry company is the electric light bulb factory founded in 1904 Radium. Radium also is even today together with the armature factory VOSS the biggest
Wipperfürth
Hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war
Electromagnetic Light Ecological Overillumination Radio spectrum Natural Ozone Radium and radon in the environment Volcanic ash Wildfire Noise Transportation
Nuclear_winter
Area codes in British Columbia, Canada
of June 23, 2008, ten-digit dialing became mandatory across British Columbia. After September 12, 2008, seven-digit dialing ceased to function. Within
Area codes 778, 236, 672, and 257
Area_codes_778,_236,_672,_and_257
transmitters operated on the AM dial as low-power relay transmitters (LPRT's), which were added to vast remote communities on the AM dial, initially 20 watts of
List of defunct CBC radio transmitters in Canada
List_of_defunct_CBC_radio_transmitters_in_Canada
City in Essex County, New Jersey, US
to 1926, the United States Radium Corporation refined ore and extracted the radium used to make luminous paint for dials and hands of watches and other
Orange,_New_Jersey
American saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1959)
Composition, "Bennie Moten's Weird Nightmare" With Either/Orchestra Dial "E" (Accurate, 1987) Radium (Accurate, 1988) The Half-Life of Desire (Accurate, 1990) The
Russ_Gershon
Cosmetic chemist
position, in 1917, was with the Radium Luminous Material Corporation of Orange, New Jersey. Luckily she was not one of the Radium Girls, workers who became
Florence_E._Wall
Canadian telecommunication company
(CNT) from Northern Light Power and Coal Company of England in 1962, and a dial telephone system was installed later in the 1960s to replace the 19th-century
Northwestel
Tornado in Georgia, United States
siding, gutters, and roofs. EF2 damage continued as the tornado entered Radium Springs, where several houses lost significant portions of their roofs and
2017_Albany_tornado
Inorganic compound
and cathode-ray tubes. This property made zinc sulfide useful in the dials of radium watches. Zinc sulfide is usually produced from waste materials from
Zinc_sulfide
Chemical element with atomic number 94 (Pu)
plutonium's physiological behavior differed significantly from that of radium. The most alarming result was that there was significant deposition of plutonium
Plutonium
American true crime podcast
10 August 2024 590 The Murder of Albert Snyder 12 August 2024 591 The Radium Girls 15 August 2024 592 Nellie May Madison: California's First Woman on
Morbid:_A_True_Crime_Podcast
Color Mixing (1910). "Radium paint takes its inventor's life; Dr. Sabin A. von Sochocky Ill a Long Time, Poisoned by Watch Dial Luminant. 13 Blood Transfusions
Paint_mixing
Village in Cornwall, England
Within the parish, at Tolgarrick mill, is one of only two uranium and radium mines in the United Kingdom: South Terras Mine. In medieval times the parish
St_Stephen-in-Brannel
Austrian environmentalist and activist
He detected significantly higher levels of radiation. The dials were coated with a radium-based paste that made them glow in the dark. Neff gained unauthorized
Thomas Neff (environmentalist)
Thomas_Neff_(environmentalist)
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RADIUM DIAL
RADIUM DIAL
Male
Czechoslovakian
, happy peace.
Boy/Male
Australian, Italian
White Hawk; Of Gabium
Girl/Female
Muslim
One who is full of shame
Girl/Female
Latin
Named for Latium.
Male
Romanian
Romanian pet form of Slavic names containing the element rad, RADU means "happy."
Boy/Male
Norse
Brother of Radorm.
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil, Traditional
Lover of Krishna; Successful; Prosperous
Boy/Male
Indian
Medium
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Veiled; Covered
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Radius; Limits
Male
Russian
(pronounced vuh-DEEM) A rare Russian name which some etymologists believe must have its root in Slavic vadit or vedet, VADIM means "to know," because pagan magicians were called veduny, "the knowing ones."Â
Girl/Female
Slavic
Works for the people.
Male
Babylonian
, man of Nabium.
Boy/Male
Norse
Borother of Jolgeir.
Boy/Male
Latin
King of Latium.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Veiled, Covered
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
One who is Full of Shame
Girl/Female
Latin American
Named for Latium.
Male
Romanian
Romanian form of Russian Vadim, probably WADIM means "knowing one."
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Sun; Unpredictable and Radicalism
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pl.
of Radius
n.
The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.
n.
Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
n.
A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of numeration.
n.
See Tedium.
n.
A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.
a.
Situated around the radii, or radial tubes, of a radiate.
pl.
of Radius
a.
Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.
n.
Same as Radius vector.
n.
An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius, or the angle measured by such an arc.
n.
Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.
n.
Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.
a.
Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man.
n.
A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oidium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.
n.
pl. of Radius.
a.
Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic.
a.
Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zool.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery.
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