Demonstration Geiger Counter
name: label: maker
content: Nuclear Instrument and Chemical Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Demonstration geiger counter made by the Nuclear Instrument and Chemical Corporation.
label: Description
content: Physicists who had worked at the Manhattan Project Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago during World War II established Instrument Development Laboratories, Inc., in February 1946, in a storefront near the University of Chicago. The firm became the Nuclear Instrument and Chemical Corporation soon thereafter, and later still, Nuclear-Chicago
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Colonel Harold O. Davis, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Davis.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.3041.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1978.3041
label: catalog number
content: N-10139
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Demonstration Geiger counter
label: Object Name
content: demonstrator, detection, radioactivity
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 cm x 25 cm x 35 cm; 9 7/16 in x 9 13/16 in x 13 3/4 in