Radiation Meter
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1944?
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the top of this radiation meter, under the handle arch, reads "Hanford Zeuto / Han-ford Works / Model H-4-800 / Keleket Model K-340." Another reads "U.S. Govt. Property / NU-number / 8014 / General Electric." Yet another reads "Keleket Instrument Division." This model, introduced in 1948, was the commercial version of the original Zeuto alpha survey meter developed at the Hanford laboratories during the Manhattan Project of World War II. It was designed for alpha surface contamination measurements.
label: Description
content: The Kelley-Koett X-Ray Manufacturing Company was established in 1903, in Covington, Kentucky, by John Robert Kelley (1871-1931), an American who had become interested in x-rays since first learning of them, and Albert Koett (1863-1851), a German immigrant who worked for the Wurlitzer Musical Instrument Company. The firm established the Keleket Division for the production of radiation detection devices in 1948.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Boh, “The Kelley-Koett X-Ray Manufacturing Company of Covington, Kentucky: Its Pioneer Years,” Bulletin of the Kenton County Historical Society (Jan.-Feb. 2020): 1-10.
label: Description
content: “Martyr to X-Ray Experiments Dies After Years of Pain,” [Washington] Evening Star (April 25, 1931), p. B-5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
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: 1994.0125.26
label: accession number
content: 1994.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0125.26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Radiation survey meter, "Hanford Zeuto"
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 cm x 15.2 cm x 23.5 cm; 6 5/16 in x 6 in x 9 1/4 in