Dial-painters working in a factory (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
After experts observed radium treating cancerous tumors, people wrongly assumed it could treat other diseases calling it a “miracle substance”.
Radium-laced products

Chocolate
(The Atlantic)

Water
(National Museum of
Nuclear Science and History)

Cosmetics
(Library of Congress (November 10, 1918))
“Inventor William J. Hammer went to Paris... Hammer discovered that by mixing the radium with glue and zinc sulfide, he could make glow-in-the-dark paint. His discovery would soon be used by the U.S. Radium Corporation to manufacture wristwatches with radium-painted dials.”
(Atomic Heritage Foundation, 2017)

A US Radium ad for "Undark" paint
(The New York Times [New York City]. 28 Apr. 1928)
At the beginning of WWI, the United States Radium Corporation (USRC) gained government contracts to produce instruments for soldiers.

(Wikipedia, November 22, 1917)

(Connecticut in World War I)
The Radium Girls
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