Radiation Counter
name: label: maker
content: Victoreen Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: Portable radiation counter with tag that reads “BETA-GAMMA SURVEY METER / . . . / THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION / COUNTER VICTOREEN / AEC MODEL 263-A / 1239.” John A. Victoreen (1902-1986), a high school dropout who made and sold radios, established the Victoreen Instrument Co., in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in 1929. During World War II, this firm manufactured radiation dosimeters for the Manhattan Project. Victoreen took the company public in 1950.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.N-08269
label: accession number
content: 243274
label: catalog number
content: MHI-N-8269
label: model number
content: 263A
label: serial number
content: 1239
label: catalog number
content: N-08269
objectType: label: Object Name
content: counter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 13 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 33.02 cm x 33.655 cm x 8.255 cm