Condenser Dosemeter Ionization Chambers
date: label: date made
content: 1927
notes: label: Description
content: A tag on this device reads “CONDENSER DOSEMETER / (ORIGINAL MODEL) / INVENTED BY OTTO GLASSER and CONSTRUCTED BY V. B. SEITZ IN 1927. USED FOR MEASURING X-RAY and RADIUM DOSAGES. IN 1928 FIRST DEMONSTRATED BY GLASSER and SEITZ, TOGETHER WITH U. V. PORTMAN, BEFORE THE II INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF RADIOLOGY AT STOCKHOLM. THIS IS THE PROTOTYPE OF THE IMPROVED CONDENSER R-METER, ADOPTED BY X-RAY AND RADIUM THERAPY INSTITUTIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.”
label: Description
content: Otto Glasser (1895-1964) was a German physicist who emigrated to the U.S. in 1922 and conducted biophysical research at the Cleveland Clinic. Valentine B. Seitz (1888-1945) was the head technician at the Cleveland Clinic.
label: Description
content: Ref: “DR. OTTO GLASSER, AN X-RAY AUTHORITY,” New York Times (Dec. 12, 1964), p. 31.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Otto Glasser, Department of Biophysics, Cleveland Clinic
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10377
label: catalog number
content: M-10377
label: accession number
content: 244962
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dosemeter
label: Other Terms
content: Dosemeter; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 14 5/8 in x 4 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 37.1475 cm x 11.43 cm