the.com/geiger counter
a device that turns invisible death into an anxious clicking soundtrack.
means an instrument that detects ionizing radiation by counting particles that ionize gas inside a tube, clicking once per hit.
from invented by hans geiger in 1908 with ernest rutherford, then refined with walther müller in 1928 into the geiger-müller tube used today.
how it clickseach click is one ionizing particle passing through gas
cant tell typedetects radiation but not which isotope caused it
chernobyl famebecame the iconic sound of nuclear disaster coverage
cheap techbasic design unchanged for nearly a century