Scaler
date: label: date made
content: late 1940s
name: label: maker
content: Technical Associates
notes: label: Description
content: Scalers were used to count pulses from radiation detectors. Herbert M. Clark (1919-2009), a professor of chemistry at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, obtained this example from the Atomic Energy Commission in 1960. It is a Model GS4, Serial No. 411, built by Technical Associates in Glendale, Ca. The firm, a spin-off of the Manhattan Project, was established in Glendale in 1946, and moved to Burbank in 1953.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Measuring & Mapping
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: 1994.0125.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0125.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scaler, binary
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; plastic; glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 48 cm x 38 cm x 67 cm; 18 7/8 in x 14 15/16 in x 26 3/8 in