Snooperscope
name: label: maker
content: Electronic Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: An advertisement in <i>Life</i> (Sept. 30, 1946): 28, announced that the “sniperscope and the snooperscope are two wartime developments of RCA Laboratories in co-operation with the U.S. Army which are now being converted to civilian, industrial and police uses.” This example came to the Smithsonian from the National Bureau of Standards. A tag on the power pack reads "CORPS OF ENGINEERS / U. S. ARMY / SNOOPERSCOPE, M-1 / ELECTRONIC LABORATORIES, INC., / INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA U. S. A. / E.B.P.O. No. W-44-009-ENG. 105 / DATED 12-17-43.” A tag on the telescope reads "Telescope, T120 / stock no. FI-7578407 / Serial No. 1324."
label: Description
content: Ref: “Army Discloses Secret Weapon: Sight At Night,” <i>Chicago Daily Tribune</i> (April 16, 1946), p. 1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: National Bureau of Standards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328873
label: catalog number
content: 328873
label: accession number
content: 278101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Snooperscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall; sniperscope in case: 17 1/8 in x 15 in x 9 3/8 in; 43.4975 cm x 38.1 cm x 23.8125 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; battery: 3 1/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 9 3/8 in; 7.9375 cm x 24.13 cm x 23.8125 cm