Geiger Counter
name: label: Associated Name
content: Hartman, Frank
label: maker
content: Radium Products
notes: label: Description
content: Geiger counter with a “FRANK HARTMAN / RADIUM PRODUCTS / 1921 WALNUT ST. / PHIL. PA.” inscription.
label: Description
content: When the United States entered World War I, Frank Janczak Hartman (1893-1986) was recruited by the army to inspect luminescent dials. He returned to Philadelphia in 1919, and established Radium Products a few years later. In the late 1930s, having become acutely aware of the dangers of radium, Hartman began working as a “radium hound,” searching for pieces lost by area hospitals and industry. He retired in 1956.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12006
label: catalog number
content: M-12006
label: accession number
content: 269372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geiger counter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 cm x 29 cm x 46 cm; 18 1/8 in x 11 13/32 in x 18 1/8 in