Original portable apparatus for detecting and locating lost radium and used by Prof. Hopwood, unsigned, British, 1930-1939. Consists of probe containg a letter lamp bulb and electrical board with resisters and a rheostat control.
Details
- Category:
- Nuclear Physics
- Object Number:
- 1939-285
- Materials:
- plastic (unidentified), cardboard, aluminium (metal), steel (metal), brass (copper, zinc alloy), glass and textile
- Measurements:
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overall (probe): 65 mm x 1038 mm x 350 mm,
overall (spare bulb): 130 mm x 66 mm x 66 mm,
overall (base): 145 mm x 337 mm x 200 mm, 2.54 kg
- type:
- radiation detector
- credit:
- Hopwood, F.L.
