A real-time, fluoroscopic X-ray setup of my previous attempts with the beryllium-window tube. However, radiographed objects are now placed on a slow moving turntable motor, thus creating a spectacular 3D effect, captured on camera.… [more]
Description: Soviet army Geiger counter.
Manufacturer: Unknown
Made in year(s): mid 60s-early 80s
Country of origin: U.S.S.R.
Status: Working, last calibration March 1990… [more]
Description: Czechoslovak cumulative γ dosimeter.
Manufacturer: ČSLA
Made in year(s): 80s, my model in 1982
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Working, last calibration in 2003… [more]
Description: Czechoslovak army Geiger counter.
Manufacturer: Rudi Čajavec and TESLA
Made in year(s): late 60s-mid 80s; 1969 is mine model
Country of origin: Yugoslavia & Czechoslovakia
Status: Working, last calibration Feb 2006… [more]
Description: Czechoslovak military Geiger counter.
Manufacturer: ČSLA
Made in year(s): early 1960s
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Working, last calibration April 2004… [more]
Tried searching the keyword “geiger counter” on Google, or even better, on YouTube? Now, how many of them contained a multitude of transistors, analog microchips or even digital microprocessors, and no shielding at all? Well, whatever the count is, a majority of them – if not all – are going to fail miserably, due to a huge electromagnetic pulse, when the… [more]
While lurking on eBay on a nice spring day of 2012, I have been lucky to obtain a real gem, for a very cheap price indeed: a special micro-focus X-ray tube, with a Be window on the beam port, mostly for spectral analysis or fluoroscopic scanning purposes, for up to 150 kilovolts with forced oil cooling at high powers; made by a now-defunct American EG&G Astrophysics company… [more]