Quartz Fiber Electroscope, Model 2
name: label: maker
content: Fred C. Henson Company
notes: label: Description
content: Electroscope designed by Charles Christian Lauritsen (1892-1968), a Danish-American physicist on the faculty of the California Instrument of Technology. An inscription reads "Quartz Fiber Electroscope / Pat. No., Model 2, Ser. No. 157 / Fred C. Henson Co., Pasadena, Calif., U.S.A."
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles C. Lauritsen, “Radiation Counter,” U.S. Patent 2,022,117 (Nov. 26, 1935), assigned to California Institute of Technology.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Pasadena
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.040
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.040
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: model number
content: 2
label: serial number
content: 157
label: patent number
content: 2022117
label: collector/donor number
content: 056
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 cm x 22.1 cm x 8.7 cm; 13 25/32 in x 8 11/16 in x 3 7/16 in