Radiation Meter
notes: label: Description
content: Portable radiation meter with tag that reads “La Roe / SCINTILLATION DETECTOR / Scintillator / LA ROE INSTRUMENTS, INC. / BETHESDA, MARYLAND.” Also Model FV-5 / S/N 5532502 and GJ3950. Another tag reads “PROPERTY OF / UNITED STATES / ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION / G. J. O. O.” La Roe Instruments was in Washington, D.C. in 1952, and in Bethesda in 1955. The Model FV-5, introduced in 1955, was designed for airborne use.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Frank Viera, Electronics Engineer,” Washington Post (April 8, 1966), p. B4
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-08267
label: accession number
content: 243274
label: catalog number
content: MHI-N-8267
label: serial number
content: 5532502
label: catalog number
content: N-08267
objectType: label: Object Name
content: counter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 12 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 31.75 cm x 22.225 cm