This vintage “Scintillator” was purchased by former Durango Mayor Bob Beers to be used in a small airplane to fly over Utah’s canyon country and detect uranium. Supposedly, you just aimed it out the plane’s windshield and it could locate precious uranium deposits buried under layers of sandstone. Like other gadgets sold during the uranium frenzy of the 1950s, this device, which looks remarkably like a ray gun, had little practical use.