Item Details
UVa Physics Department Cosmic Rays Study
- Format
- Online; Visual Materials
- Type
- Nonprojected Graphic
- Summary
- Notation on back, "In the Endless Caverns of New Market, Virginia, 90 feet below the gigantic 180,000 years old calcite 'Twin Columns' shown in the left foreground, flows an underground stream to reach which the University of Virginia scientists climbed down an 80-foot subterranean cliff by means of a stout rope, with a 50 pound Geiger-Mueller Counter strapped to the back of one of the men, to record cosmic rays on the bank of the stream after these rays from outer space had penetrated 180 feet of limestone."
- Date Created
- 1947
- Description
- Original Negative Present
- Collection
- University of Virginia Visual History Collection
- Location
- Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
- Retrieval ID
- prints01580
- MSS 6838-b
- Call Number
- RG-30/1/10.011
- Copyright & Permissions
Copyright Not Evaluated
