Recorder for Airborne Magnetometer
notes: label: Description
content: The “G. R. & D. CO. PGH. PA.” inscription on the tag of this airborne magnetometer recorder refers to the Gulf Research & Development Corp. Ralph Dewey Wyckoff (1897-1975), an electrical engineer, led the team that developed this instrument.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Radar Helps Chart Hidden Oil Wells,” Washington Post (Jan. 2, 1947), p. M12.
label: Description
content: “DEVICE IN PLANE DETECTS ORE, OIL,” New York Times (Aug. 5, 1948), p. 23.
label: Description
content: R. D. Wyckoff, “The Gulf Airborne Magnetometer,” Geophysics 13 (April 1948): 153-268.
label: Description
content: “RALPH WYCOFF (SIC), 72, GEOPHYSICIST, DIES,” New York Times (Feb. 1, 1975), p. 25.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gulf Research & Development Corp.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-P-8742
label: accession number
content: 272511
label: catalog number
content: MHI-P-8742
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Recorder
label: Object Name
content: Recorder for Airborne Magnetometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in x 14 in; 29.21 cm x 41.91 cm x 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/8 in x 16 9/16 in x 15 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.06875 cm x 38.1 cm