Detector and Scaler
date: label: Date made
content: early 1950s
notes: label: Description
content: Scalers were used to count pulses from radiation detectors. This combined instrument, a Model PC-1, Serial No.133, was made by the Nuclear Measurements Corp. in Indianapolis. Herbert M. Clark, a professor of chemistry at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, used it for the radioactive rainout measurements he reported in 1954.
label: Description
content: Ref: Herbert M. Clark, “The Occurrence of an Unusually High-Level Radioactive Rainout in the Area of Troy, N.Y.,” Science 119 (1954): 619-622.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1994.0125.07
label: accession number
content: 1994.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0125.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Detector, alpha-beta-gamma, proportional, gas flow
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.5 cm x 56.3 cm x 41.7 cm; 10 13/16 in x 22 3/16 in x 16 7/16 in