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English: Doc (circa 1940-1947)
Photographer
English: NPS
Title
English: Doc (circa 1940-1947)
Description
English:

A silver box a black cord attaching a circle with measurements on the box to a short silver rod. There are words on the box including the word "Meter".

A portable Geiger-Muller (GM) detector made by the Victoreen Company, the device’s nickname came from one of the dwarfs from the Disney movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” The Doc measures gamma radiation within a range of 0.1 to 100 mR/hr.
Depicted place
English: Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Accession number
09e7c410-f4d8-43b8-a478-22c96ded89a5
Source
English: NPGallery
Permission
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
NPS Unit Code
InfoField
MAPR
Album(s)
InfoField
English: Name that Radiation Detector

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