Talk:United States Radium Corporation

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I think the section referring to Peru, Illinois may be factually inaccurate - Radium Dial was in Ottawa, Illinois from 1922-1932, and operated again in Ottawa as "Luminous Processes" 'til 1978. I've added some comments here that are relevant. SVDasein (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 08:24, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


Hi User:Alansohn, thanks for fixing the cats etc. up- I have no Idea how to do that.--Read-write-services 04:19, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Latest edits-Good job!

Hi User:Alansohn, once again-the article is sounding a lot more informative due to your recent edits-well done. Are you able to source some photographs of the outside of the factory? some photos of the owners? maybe ebven a copy of some of the court proceedings? Perhaps even some items painted by the workers would be a great improvement to the text. Cheers--Read-write-services 22:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

  • I had always been interested in the subject and heard about the case, but until you created the article I never knew the details; thanks to you for taking the time to start the article. I have nominated the article for inclusion on the "Did You Know" feature on the Wikipedia front page. My "specialty" is finding text and sources, by agree that some period pictures would improve the article. I will search for some. Alansohn 23:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Great!

I first heard about this in the mid 80s (I'm 40). So it has bugged and appalled me for ages. I have always wanted to write about these subjects (Industrial accidents and diseases) I am interested in radium jaw, Phossy jaw and poisoned places such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom%2C_Western_Australia plus US radium corp. I have heard that there was also a subsiduary of US radium called the Radium Dial Company, but I am not sure of this..if you could find some pics it would really improve the article out of sight. cheers--Read-write-services 01:42, 21 September 2007 (UTC)