Radiation Meter
date: label: Date made
content: 1940s?
name: label: maker
content: Radiation Counter Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Radiation meter designed by Henry Howard Cary (1908-1991), an engineer with a degree from the California Institute of Technology who landed a job with National Technical Laboratories in 1935. One inscription reads "Radiation Counter Laboratories / Mark II / Model 25 / Serial 102." Another reads "Beckman / Scientific Instrument / National Technical Laboratories / South Pasadena California, USA" and "Model / MX-4" and "Serial / 21323." Yet another reads "U.S. Pat. 2,232,211."
label: Description
content: The Radiation Counter Laboratories was established by Ernest Henry Wakefield (1915-2005), an electrical engineer who had worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. It was located in Chicago in 1947; and in Skokie, Ill., in 1960.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Howard Cary, “Automatic Voltage and pH Meter,” U.S. Patent 2,232,211 (Feb. 18, 1941), assigned to National Technical Laboratories.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: 1994.0125.24.1
label: accession number
content: 1994.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0125.24.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Radiation meter based on Beckman vacuum-tube ammeter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 cm x 32 cm x 25.5 cm; 11 7/16 in x 12 5/8 in x 10 1/16 in