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Geiger Counter

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Manufactured by Precision Radiation Instruments, Los Angeles, California, 1950s. The instrument was used in the Rocky Mountain States, as well as by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey in the 1960s.

Object ID: USGS-000667


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