General Information

Serial #

57

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

NON-FERROUSMETAL CASING & PARTS/ BAKELITE PARTS/ GLASS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

32.1 cm

Width

11.3 cm

Height

16.4 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Physics

Category

Atomic & nuclear

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Tracerlab

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Massachusetts

City

Boston

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

DEVELOPED AND PROBABLY USED IN THE 1950S AND THE 1960S

Canada

THIS METER WAS DESIGNED BY TRACERLAB AND THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABS IN CHALK RIVER, ONTARIO

Function

USED TO DETECT BETA & GAMMA RADIATION

Technical

THIS METER IS OF THE IONIZATION CHAMBER TYPE FEATURING SMALL DIMENSIONS & WEIGHT, GUN TYPE CONSTRUCTION & PISTOL GRIP HANDLE. INTENDED FOR USE IN "HOT" LABORATORIES HANDLING LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVITY OF THE ORDER OF MILLICURIES OR HUNDREDS OF RUTHERFORDS. [REF 1]

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

PRINTED ON BODY: 'RADIATION SURVEY METER/ CHALK RIVER MODEL SUID/ SERIAL NO. 57/ Tracerlab/ BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A.'/ DECAL ON BACK: 'NATIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES/ RADIOLOGY'/ 'X100 X10/ ZERO X1/ RANGE'/ HANDWRITTEN ON LABELS: 'Repaired Sept 22/60/ Elect tube replaced & batteries/ Jan67 Batt. & Elect tubes/ Calibrated Oct16/60/ Change By 16 Dec 1965' 'Calibrated/ July1/57/ +/- 5% all Ranges'/ PRINTING ON METER INCLUDES: 'WESTON, ELEC. INST. CORP. NEWARK N.J. U.S.A./ MR/HR/ Tracerlab'

Missing

N/A

Finish

CASING PAINTED GREY ENAMEL/ PLATED PARTS/ BLACK BAKELITE

Decoration

N/A