hbielen on DeviantArthttps://www.deviantart.com/hbielen/art/Geiger-Counter-icon-141589784hbielen

Deviation Actions

hbielen's avatar

Geiger Counter - icon

By
Published:
4.2K Views

Description

Geiger counter used by James Bond in first movie Dr. No, 1962.

Download it here as part of the set: [link]

Screen: [link]

Cheers!

Completely done in Photoshop with vectors and layer styles.

---
Updated with some details redrawn/corrected

Want to see more?
Image size
849x555px 89.41 KB
© 2009 - 2024 hbielen
Comments18
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
 The geiger counter used by Sean Connery in the film Dr No is a real instrument, it's the Thorn EMI Portable Contamination Monitor No. 1, or PCM1, which used 12 D cell 1.5 volt batteries.  In the film, it is coupled to geiger muller probe type BP3.  However, the box is designed principally for the scintillation dual phosphor probe DP2, which discriminates between alpha and beta particles to produce beeps for alphas and clicks for betas, using a pulse height discriminator circuit (typical 5 MeV alpha particles produce a 10 times brighter flash when hitting zinc sulphide phosphor, than typical 0.5 MeV beta particles when they hit a plastic phosphor). The user handbook explains all this in greater detail with pictures, and it is online in PDF format.