Geiger-Mueller Counter
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1947
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on top of the box of this Geiger-Mueller counter reads "Model 2610." A plate on the bottom of the box reads "Nuclear Instrument and Chemical Corporation / Chicago Illinois / Serial 2610 Model 591." The model and serial numbers are apparently interchanged.
label: Description
content: Physicists who had worked at the Manhattan Project Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago during World War II established Instrument and Development Laboratories, Inc., in February 1946, in a storefront near the University of Chicago. The firm became the Nuclear Instrument and Chemical Corporation soon thereafter, and later still, Nuclear-Chicago.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1994.0125.31.1
label: accession number
content: 1994.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0125.31.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: unter for radiation survey measurements
label: Object Name
content: geiger-mueller counter for radiation survey measurements
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 cm x 11 cm x 32.5 cm; 13 in x 4 5/16 in x 12 13/16 in