Geiger Counter Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Geiger tube with a "Radiation Counter Labs / Mark I / Mod. 3B / ser #180" inscription. Ernest Henry Wakefield (1915-2005), an electrical engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, established the Radiation Counter Laboratories in Chicago in 1946. The firm later moved to Skokie.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.031
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.031
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: model number
content: 3B
label: serial number
content: 180
label: collector/donor number
content: 047
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geiger, counting tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.5 cm x 3.5 cm x 4.7 cm; 4 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 1 27/32 in