Electroscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1921
notes: label: Description
content: Howard Atwood Kelly (1858-1943), a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, served as the first professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He used radium to treat uterine hemorrhages and fibroid tumors. And he acquired this gold leaf electroscope, ca. 1921, and used it to calibrate gamma radiation from a radon glass bulb by comparison with a standard (50 milligrams of radium sulphate sealed in glass).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mitchell H. Miller, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09640.01
label: catalog number
content: M-09640.01
label: accession number
content: 232302
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electroscope
label: Other Terms
content: Electroscope; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 13.97 cm x 16.51 cm