Scaler
date: label: date made
content: 1947
name: label: maker
content: Instrument Development Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Scalers were used to count pulses from radiation detectors. This example—Model 161, Serial nr 817—was made by the Instrument Development Laboratories (subsequently Nuclear Chicago). Herbert M. Clark (1919-2009), a professor of chemistry at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was using it by 1947.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1994.0125.02
label: accession number
content: 1994.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0125.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scaler, binary, commercial
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 55 cm x 37 cm; 11 in x 21 5/8 in x 14 9/16 in