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Whilst looking around for something in the chem stock room where I work I opened a drawer and saw this antique Geiger counter. Before I ran back to my class I snapped a few pictures - it is just so 1960s cold war - it could be a prop in a space movie. But best of all it is called the "Victoreen Cutie Pie". There is something so delusional - when you go out to survey the nuclear holocaust wasteland you will have your Cutie Pie at your side. Last time it was calibrated was 1969. Great prop for Weird Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero".
"Ill duck and cover with my Yuletide lover, while the air raid sirens blare..."
I was walking around in a surplus store and found a box that said Radiation Detection Kit. I opened the box and there were 2 Geiger Counters inside. I just had to have them!
Turns out these are Field Detection kits and are not sensitive enough to use. In a nutshell, if you see the needle move, you have already been exposed to deadly levels of radiation.
My friend Anmarie asked if I could make a fake Geiger counter for her band's CD release show tonight (littlehexes.com/). Here's what I came up with.
The "wand" has a pressure sensor under the thumb. The guts of the thing is an ATmega chip on a dorkboard which reads the sensor input and pulses the meter, speaker, and light if the random number generator picks a number less than the wand's input value. Dead simple, but it works great.
October, 1988
Allan Geiger news article and video, 2025 - now age 61:
www.wqad.com/article/news/health/copd-awareness-month-uni...
National Atomic Testing Museum
Artifact Legend
34. Aluminum and lead absorber set used to demonstrate the effectiveness of shielding to radiation. Nuclear Chicago C101
On loan from the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, Behring Center Ken Travis Collection
Geiger trubice testované v rámci vývoje detektoru CzechRad / Geiger tubes tested during CzechRad detector development
zleva / from the left: LND 7317 (USA), Saint-Gobain S800-1193 (France / India), SPF "CONSENSUS" Gamma-6 and Gamma-6-1 (Russia)
author: Jan Helebrant
license CC BY-SA
Even though I've never bought anything in this shop I love the way it looks - all reflective and shiny...
Here's one from the archives: NIWX 8924, and EMD SD45 still equipped with its 20 cylinder 645 prime mover, leads a pair of empty centerbeam cars and WRIX 3000 near Medical Lake, WA. The 8924 was built for the Seaboard Coast Line as number 2024. It served on Montana Rail Link for several years before being sold to NIWX Corporation and subsequently leased to the Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad. It was eventually sold to VLIX and restored to its original paint and number. It recently gained some fame while accompanying Clinchfield Railroad F3 No. 800 during CSX's 2017 Santa train under the guise of CRR No. 3632.
OCDM Item No. CDV-700
Model No. 6A Ser. No. 29144
Circa 1961
Bought this working unit from the gift shop at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History.
A must for every Fallout Shelter!