Radiation Counter
date: label: date made
content: 1946-1957
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the cover of this radiation counter reads “SNIFFER / n.” A paper label on the inside reads in part “NUCLEAR INSTRUMENT & CHEMICAL CORP. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.” Physicists who had worked at the Manhattan Project Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago during World War II established Instrument 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. It moved to Des Plaines, Illinois, in 1947, and went public in 1948.
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-08275
label: accession number
content: 243274
label: catalog number
content: MHI-N-8275
label: serial number
content: 409
label: catalog number
content: N-08275
objectType: label: Object Name
content: counter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 7 3/4 in x 2 in; 13.335 cm x 19.685 cm x 5.08 cm