- August 2nd, 2021, 8:05 pm#4953144
I'm working a model of the Ecto Containment Unit, combining elements from the film, cartoon, and comics in to one 3D environment. In trying to identify that chart device Egon looks at halfway through the film, I managed to make a part identification that I have yet to see having been made by anyone else.
I give you... the Speedomax chart recorder, built by Leeds and Northrup Company.
Apparently this device has been around since the mid-1940s, and once was used do such things as provide "complete unitized instrumentation systems for early research and test reactors" in the early days of the atomic age.
It appears the prop builders in the original film took two of these recorders, mounted them to that goofy metal upright fixture, slapped a green light on with... what is that, gaffers tape?... and called it good.
I give you... the Speedomax chart recorder, built by Leeds and Northrup Company.
Apparently this device has been around since the mid-1940s, and once was used do such things as provide "complete unitized instrumentation systems for early research and test reactors" in the early days of the atomic age.
It appears the prop builders in the original film took two of these recorders, mounted them to that goofy metal upright fixture, slapped a green light on with... what is that, gaffers tape?... and called it good.