Penetrometer
notes: label: Description
content: With a Benoist penetrometer, one could compare the "hardness” of the X-rays coming from his/her tube with a reference standard.
label: Description
content: Ref: L. Benoist, “Experimental definition of various types of X-rays by the radiochromator,” Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (1902).
label: Description
content: James G. Biddle Co., The Benoist Penetrometer (Philadelphia).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. John Hunter Selby
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-05188
label: catalog number
content: M-05188
label: accession number
content: 166784
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Penetrometer, Benoist
label: Other Terms
content: Penetrometer, Benoist; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 9 in x 6 in x 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 15.24 cm x 1.27 cm