Scaler
date: label: Date made
content: late 1940s
name: label: maker
content: Tracerlab, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Scalers were used to count pulses from radiation detectors. This example was made by Tracerlab for the Atomic Energy Commission. Herbert M. Clark, a professor of chemistry at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, obtained it from the A.E.C. in 1960. An inscription reads “G.M. scaler / Serial No 1-57 A.E.C. Mod. CGM-13A / A / N Mod."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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: 1994.0125.03
label: accession number
content: 1994.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0125.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tracerlab "The 64 Scaler"
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 28.5 cm x 61.5 cm x 46 cm; 11 1/4 in x 24 3/16 in x 18 1/8 in