General Information

Serial #

132

Part Number

1

Total Parts

4

AKA

microscope

Patents

N/A

General Description

Predominantly metal casing and components; glass optics. Casing has wrinkle-textured finish on most areas, save bright silver metal eyepiece tube, charger button and electrometer track; eyepiece rim is black moulded synthetic [bakelite ?]; light button is red synthetic.

Dimensions

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

Length

12.3 cm

Width

7.3 cm

Height

19.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Medical Technology

Category

Radiology

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Victoreen

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Ohio

City

Cleveland

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

Presumably used c. 1920s-1935, and possibly later.

Canada

Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.

Function

To measure small x-ray and Gamma ray intensities.

Technical

Unknown

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

"PROTEXIMETER/ MADE IN U.S.A. BY/ THE VICTOREEN INSTRUMENT CO./ CLEVELAND OHIO" printed on plate fixed to instrument front. "132" stamped into electrometer track. UHN catalogue no. "2000.1.9" printed by hand in white ink on casing back.

Missing

Appears complete.

Finish

Predominantly metal casing and components; glass optics. Casing has wrinkle-textured finish on most areas, save bright silver metal eyepiece tube, charger button and electrometer track; eyepiece rim is black moulded synthetic [bakelite ?]; light button is red synthetic.

Decoration

N/A