Electron Microscope
date: label: date made
content: about 1948
name: label: maker
content: RCA Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Vladimir Zworykin (1888-1982) was an electrical engineer from Russia who moved to the United States in 1919, worked for the Westinghouse Electric Company, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Later, as a research director at the RCA electronic research laboratory in Camden, N.J., he started a program to develop an electron microscope. A model unveiled in 1939 had a magnification of 100,000 times. This example, a Model EMT-1, dates from 1948, and was used at the U.S. Naval Training Center in Illinois.
label: Description
content: Ref: "Vladimir Zworykin, Television Pioneer, Dies at 92," New York Times (Aug. 1, 1982), p. 32.
label: Description
content: Jerome H. Reisner, “An Early History of the Electron Microscope,” Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics 73 (1989): 163-215.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Government Transfer, Department of Defense, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-14732
label: catalog number
content: M-14732
label: accession number
content: 299455
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope, electron