Electron Microscope
date: label: date made
content: about 1944
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The RCA model EMU 1, which debuted in 1944, was the first American electron microscope capable of both imaging and electron diffraction. Seeley Greenleaf Mudd (1895-1968)—a Harvard Medical School graduate who worked at the California Institute of Technology and then the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California—purchased this example for use at USC in 1946.
label: Description
content: Ref: RCA ad for the EMU electron microscope in The Science News-Letter 47 (March 10, 1945): 155.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Southern California, School of Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.323480.01
label: catalog number
content: 323480.01
label: accession number
content: 323480
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electron microscope