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2. Radium Girls - Wikipedia

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   Dials painted in Ottawa appeared on Westclox's popular Big Ben, Baby Ben, and travel clocks; and Radium Dial hired young women to paint the dials, using the same "lip, dip, paint" approach as the women in New Jersey and by another unaffiliated plant in Waterbury, Connecticut, that supplied the Waterbury Clock Company. [18]

3. Radium dial - Wikipedia

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   November 1917 ad for an Ingersoll "Radiolite" watch, one of the first watches mass marketed in the USA featuring a radium-illuminated dial. Radium was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 [1] and was soon combined with paint to make luminescent paint, which was applied to clocks, airplane instruments, and the like, to be able to read them in the dark.

4. Radium Dial Company - Wikipedia

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   The resulting dials are now collectively known as radium dials. The luminous paint used on the dials contained a mixture of zinc sulfide activated with silver, and powdered radium, a product that the Radium Dial Company named Luma. However, unlike the US Radium Corporation, Radium Dial Company was specifically set up to only paint dials, and no ...

5. How Brightly Colored Dials Became the Watch World’s Most ...

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6. Gallet & Company - Wikipedia

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   Park Watch Company (reg. 21 Sep 1929, Excelsior Park powered stopwatches) Patriot Watch (reg. 16 Apr 1889, pocket watches) [30] Profundus (first diver's wristwatch with integral depth gauge, 1966) [30] QuickTrain (earliest commercially produced wrist watch with faster beat movement) [12] Racine (watches sold in North America) [12]

7. Watch - Wikipedia

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   In 1987, Casio produced a watch that could dial telephone numbers (the DBA-800) and Citizen introduced one that would react to voice. In 1995, Timex released a watch that allowed the wearer to download and store data from a computer to their wrist. Some watches, such as the Timex Datalink USB, feature dot matrix displays. Since their apex ...