- Title: F-5903v
- Summary: NUCLEAR RADIATION DETECTORS: MEN IN LAB WITH RADIATION DETECTOR EQUIPMENT & EXPERIMENTS.
- Description:01:19:18 - SCENIC NATURE BEAUTY SHOT, SUNSET 01:19:28 - CREW-CUT TEEN TURNING ON TABLE LAMP LIGHT. READING HARDCOVER BOOK, TURNING PAGES 01:19:40 - CU FIRE BURNING IN FIREPLACE 01:19:47 - RADIO TOWER 01:19:59 - CU HAND TUNING IN RADIO STATION ON PORTABLE RADIO RECEIVER 01:20:08 - RADIOLOGIST STUDYING SET OF X-RAYS. BODY PARTS, KNEE JOINT 01:20:37 - CHART SHOWING TWO CLASSIFICATIONS OF RADIATION USED IN SCIENCE & INDUSTRY: ELECTROMAGNETIC, WAVES OF ENERGY & CORPUSCLAR, PARTICLES OR ENTITIES. ANIMATED RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS BREAKING DOWN TO MORE STABLE FORM. EMISSION OF NUCLEAR RADIATION 01:21:31 - ANIMATION OF THREE KINDS OF SUCH RADIATIONS: ALPHA RAYS CONTAINING TWO PROTONS & NEUTRONS & POSITIVE ELECTRICAL CHARGE. BETA RAYS, HIGH KINETIC ENERGY & NEGATIVE CHARGE, & GAMMA RAYS ELECTRO-MAGNETIC & ELECTRICALLY NEUTRAL 01:22:05 - CU PAN INSTRUMENTS, RADIATION DETECTORS 01:22:25 - CU GOLD LEAF ELECTROSCOPE 01:22:53 - CU SCIENTIST PRODUCING STATIC ELECTRICITY & USING ELECTROSCOPE 01:23:26 - CU NUCLEAR RADIATION LOGO. PLACING NUCLEAR RADIATION NEXT TO ELECTROSCOPE WHICH RAPIDLY DISCHARGES 01:23:40 - ANIMATED SCHEMATIC DRAWING OF ELECTROSCOPE EXPLAINS ABOVE CONCEPT. IONIZATION. ELECTRONS. 01:25:32 - SCIENTIST IN LAB STUDYING DETECTORS 01:25:48 - ANIMATED IONIZATION CHAMBER. ELECTRODES. BATTERY. POSITIVE & NEGATIVE ION PAIRS. NUCLEAR RADIATION 01:26:44 - SCIENTISTS USING IONIZATION CHAMBERS IN LAB STUDYING NUCLEAR RADIATION, GAS PRESSURES, SELECTED VOLTAGE RANGES. ELECTRONIC & MECHANIC PULSE ANALYZERS, SORTERS & COUNTING DEVICES 01:27:11 - CU GEIGER COUNTER 01:27:25 - ANIMATED GEIGER COUNTER TUBE. CATHODE. ANODE. SHOWS HOW GEIGER COUNTER WORKS 01:28:05 - SCIENTIST USING GEIGER COUNTER TUBE IN LAB IONIZATION INSTRUMENTS. CU COUNTS PER MINUTE GAUGE 01:28:43 - ANIMATED THREE TYPES OF NUCLEAR RADIATION, PENETRATING POWERS OF ALPHA, BETA, & GAMMA ON PAPER, ALUMINUM, & LEAD 01:29:27 - CU OPEN AIR ALPHA RAY DETECTOR 01:29:38 - CU HAND TURNING KNOB ON GEIGER COUNTER. SCIENTIST STUDYING ALPHA RADIATIONS IN LAB 01:30:00 - SCIENTIST USING WILSON CLOUD CHAMBER. SCIENTIST PLACING DISTILLED WATER IN SHALLOW VESSEL IN BOTTOM OF CHAMBER, ADD SMALL AMOUNT OF DYE. SOURCE OF NUCLEAR RADIATION PLACED ABOVE WATER LEVEL. SLOWLY COMPRESSING RUBBER BULB AT BASE OF CHAMBER THEN QUICKLY RELEASES IT. SUDDEN EXPANSION COOLS WATER VAPOR, CONDENSES IONS. CONDENSATION DROPLETS. 01:31:15 - CU DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER. SCIENTIST POURS VOLATILE LIQUID, ALCOHOL, ON BOTTOM OF CHAMBER. STEAM ON BOTTOM. CONDENSATION OF IONS. SUPER-SATURATED VAPOR. 01:32:14 - SCIENTIST USING BUBBLE CHAMBER, SUPER HEATED LIQUID. 01:32:32 - ANIMATION SHOWS PATHS OF RADIATION PARTICLES & BUBBLES 01:32:41 - LAB ASSISTANT SLIDES GLASS UNDER MICROSCOPE, PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSIONS. RECORDING TRACKS OF IONIZING RAYS. POV LOOKING UNDER MICROSCOPE 01:33:05 - SCIENTIST USING SCINTILLATION COUNTER. ANOTHER NUCLEAR RADIATION DETECTOR. 01:33:19 - ANIMATION SHOWS FLASHES OF LIGHT OR CENTILATIONS ON PHOSPHORS 01:33:48 - ANIMATION SHOWS HOW SCINTILLATION COUNTER WORKS. ALUMINUM FOIL, PHOSPHOR, PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE. PHOTOCATHODE 01:34:15 - CU AMPLIFIER RECORDING CENTILATION, PULSE OF MEASURABLE CURRENT 01:34:37 - CU RADIATION LOGO. CU SOLID STATE DETECTOR. 01:35:03 - SCIENTIST STUDYING NUCLEAR RADIATION
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1961
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: F-5903v