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Experimental Geiger tube similar to those flown on Viking sounding rockets. The pillbox-like shape was designed to allow these detectors to be stacked and flown as an array. These counters comprise a gas filled tube with a outer cathode and a short wire anode in the middle, hidden by the opaque entrance window, probably aluminum, that was designed to filter out all radiation less energetic than x-rays. Photons of energetic radiation that enter the tube will ionize the filling gas making it electrically conductive. This will cause a discharge to flow bewteen the anode and the cathode. This results in a countable electrical signal. This artifact is part of a collection of high energy detectors from the Naval Research Laboratory (see Catalogue#s 19880001000-19880017000). It was transferred to NASM in 1987.
Country of Origin
United States of America
Type
INSTRUMENTS-Test
Manufacturer
Naval Research Laboratory Dimensions
3-D: 4.1 x 1.9cm (1 5/8 x 3/4 in.) Materials
Cover - aluminum
Geiger tube - glass
Tube - chrome iron Inventory Number
A19880009000
Credit Line
Transferred from the Naval Research Laboratory
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
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