Radiation Meter
name: label: maker
content: Berkeley Scientific Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on this radiation counter reads “Berkeley / SURVEY METER / MODEL 2750.” A tag on the side reads “USAEC / No. 2868.” The Model 2750 was a lightweight, portable meter for mineralogical surveys, civil defense, locating leaks in pipe systems, and following the course of tracer elements in experimental work and industrial processes. It measured beta and gamma radiation in the mR/h range.
label: Description
content: The Berkeley Scientific Corporation was established in September 1945 in Berkeley, California. In 1946, it moved to Richmond, California. In 1955, it became the Berkeley Division of Beckman Instruments.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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-08263
label: accession number
content: 243274
label: catalog number
content: MHI-N-8263
label: serial number
content: 285
label: catalog number
content: N-08263
objectType: label: Object Name
content: counter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 10 3/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 15.24 cm x 26.3525 cm x 11.7475 cm