Direct Reading Pocket Dosimeter (ca. 1932) |
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| This direct reading pocket
dosimeter was hand-built by Charlie Lauritsen sometime around 1932.
Lauritsen gave it to Robley Evans who was one of Robert Millikan's
graduate students at Caltech at that time. Evans then donated it to the
collection.
Charlie Lauritsen is credited with having designed the first direct reading pocket dosimeters and this example is the oldest such device in existence Direct reading dosimeters (often two) are typically worn in a shirt pocket, much like a fountain pen. The wearer determines their exposure by looking through the lens (upper left corner in the photo) and reading the position of a moving line (the shadow of a quartz fiber) on a small scale. In more modern units, the scale usually indicates exposures between 0 and 200 mR (or mrem). The scale in this example reads from 0-50 with no units indicated. Donated by Robley Evans |