Alaina Urquhart

Oh, God.

It's rare.

It's this wonder element, and I'm covered in it.

And it's not dirty.

It makes you glow.

Yeah.

It's got a luminescence to it.

You almost look like you're sparkling.

It's like what we would use highlighter for now.

It's got that vibe to it.

So I think it had this whole mystique that they were definitely feeding into.

Mm-hmm.

Now, the work of a dial painter wasn't just a matter of chemistry and honestly speed because they wanted them to do it as fast as they could.

It also required a little bit of skill and a lot of creativity because the products created by U.S.

Radium from wristwatches, instrument panels, you know, clocks for the wall, they were really small, these little elements that they had to paint.

And often they had these like tiny little details, but these tiny details were really critical to...

their operation and if they were going to be used or not.

Like, for example, the smallest pocket watches that they produce measured just three and a half centimeters across the face.

Wow.

And like, so that's tiny, tiny little like millimeter things they had to paint.