Radiation Meter
date: label: Date made
content: late 1950s
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on this radiation meter read "Radector" and "Jordan / Electronic Mfg. Co. / Pasadena, Calif." and "Model / AGB-50-SR." Jordan Electronics, a firm that made portable radiation meters, was in Pasadena in 1955. In 1956, having received a large order from the Federal Civil Defense Administration, the firm moved into a new building in Alhambra.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Department of Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0125.29
label: accession number
content: 1994.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0125.29
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Radiation survey meter, "Radector"
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 10 cm x 15 cm; 5 1/8 in x 3 15/16 in x 5 7/8 in