Flow Counter
date: label: Date made
content: 1950-1960
label: Date made
content: 1950s
name: label: maker
content: Radiation Counter Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: A flow counter measures low level radiation. An inscription on this example reads “Radiation Counter Laboratories.”
label: Description
content: Ernest H. Wakefield (1915-2005) joined the Metallurgical Project at the University of Chicago in 1943, edited the Nuclear Instrument Handbook, and received a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering in 1952. He then established the Radiation Counter Laboratories, a firm located in suburban Chicago (Skokie, Melrose Park, and then Evanston).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. J. P. Lambooy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0214.3
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0214.3
label: accession number
content: 1985.0214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flow Counter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.5 cm x 17.8 cm x 10.8 cm; 4 1/8 in x 7 in x 4 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in storage box: 6 5/8 in x 16 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 16.8275 cm x 41.91 cm x 21.59 cm