Geiger Counter
name: label: maker
content: Technical Associates
notes: label: Description
content: Geiger counter (or tube) with a: "Technical Associates / Geiger Counter - Type TA-Bl / serial no. 332" inscription. Technical Associates was established in Glendale, Ca. in 1946, by men who had designed and built industrial-grade radiation monitors to safeguard the Manhattan Project scientists involved with the first atomic bomb. The firm moved to Burbank in 1953.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.134
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.134
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: serial number
content: 332
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geiger counter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 9 cm x 2 cm; 8 21/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 25/32 in