{"id":3132,"date":"2012-09-06T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2012-09-06T19:19:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:19:53","slug":"an-atwater-kent-geiger-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2012\/09\/06\/an-atwater-kent-geiger-counter\/","title":{"rendered":"An &#8216;Atwater Kent&#8217; Geiger Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, here&#8217;s a technical novelty. John Baichtal, community manager at the <a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/contact.html\">Make<\/a> blog and magazine, features <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/2012\/09\/06\/nixie-tube-geiger-counter\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+makezineonline+%28MAKE%29\">a homemade geiger counter<\/a> that looks like an &#8220;old-timey cathedral radio with a detachable wand,&#8221; rather than the usual metal box with a dial on it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/FVOP3Y8H6MF42LG.LARGE_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/FVOP3Y8H6MF42LG.LARGE_-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FVOP3Y8H6MF42LG.LARGE\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/FVOP3Y8H6MF42LG.LARGE_-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/FVOP3Y8H6MF42LG.LARGE_.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s a beautiful job, we think you&#8217;ll agree. Geiger counters like this would add some serenity to a few nuclear power plants we know. It was made by somebody with the web moniker &#8220;moustachenator.&#8221; But all we can find out about him (we presume, but maybe we shouldn&#8217;t) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/moustachenator\">on YouTube<\/a> is that he&#8217;s apparently 65 and lives in the U.S. The &#8220;count&#8221; numbers flash on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nixie_tube\">nixie tubes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The builder details the 12 steps that were involved in creating this antique-looking counter. Congratulations to &#8220;moustachenator&#8221; the maker, indeed! \u2013 <em>Doug Bedell<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, here&#8217;s a technical novelty. John Baichtal, community manager at the Make blog and magazine, features a homemade geiger counter that looks like an &#8220;old-timey cathedral radio with a detachable wand,&#8221; rather than the usual metal box with a dial on it. It&#8217;s a beautiful job, we think you&#8217;ll agree. Geiger counters like this would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}