"Radium Paint Takes Its Inventor's Life"
An archival extract of the obituary for Dr. Sabin A. von Sochocky III, from page 29 of the Thursday, November 15th, 1928 edition of the New York Times.
While the none of the luminous paint his company created is functional any longer, a century onward it remains just as humanly lethal. Due to its more than 1600-year half life, the radioactive radium employed in his invention that still exists in the hands and dials of an untold number timepieces has and continues to wreak havoc and potential harm to countless lives.