Book Review: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore, 2016, SourceBooks (Simon & Schuster)
“Lip, dip, paint” is the mantra repeated by Kate Moore in her 2016 story of the young women who painted the dials of watches and military gauges with luminescent paint containing radium in the early 1900s. This is the practice of putting a fine point on the paintbrush, then dipping it in the radium-containing paint, and painting the numbers on the tiny dials of watches and, later, gauges for military equipment.
Covering the period of time from 1910-1938 and the paint studios of the American Radium Company (later, United States ...