CP-1 Geiger Counter Tubes
date: label: Date made
content: 1941
name: label: maker
content: Manhattan Project
notes: label: Description
content: The Manhattan Project was a large and costly American endeavor to create an atomic bomb to end World War II. To this end, the Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first nuclear reactor, was built under the football stands at the University of Chicago and, on Dec. 2, 1942, produced the first sustained and human-created nuclear reaction. For this work, Manhattan Project physicists asked instrument makers at the University for Geiger counter tubes with “as thin as you can make them.” This is one of those instruments.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United Kingdom: England, Cambridge
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.N-08025-A
label: accession number
content: 235634
label: catalog number
content: N-08025-A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tubes, Thin Walled
label: Object Name
content: tube, thin walled
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x .2 cm; 5 1/8 in x 1/16 in