Word: cyclotrons
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...someone happened to be standing beside the cyclotron when a test was about to begin, "he's have to be deaf dumb, and blind not to be able to do anything about it." First the white lights would go off and red lights would begin to flash. A gong would sound, and just in case these measures were not convincing enough, the operator's voice would boom out a warning over the loud-speaker...
...power that a new sub-station had to be built. (The University buys its electricity at very high voltage and builds all the sub-stations to step it down. It is cheaper that way.) The Laboratory also sports a 250 kilowatt generator to supply the DC power for the cyclotron's magnetic field...
...magnet itself weighs 700 tons. It was the Railroad that actually determined the maximum size this cyclotron could be. The parts for anything bigger than the Nuclear Laboratory has already would never have made the clearances along the line from Home-stead, Pennsylvania, where the machine was built, to Boston. Once the parts were in Cambridge, the University had to send all the way to California for experts to assemble and install them. the cost of the cyclotron and its installation amounted to about $1,000,000, which was paid for by the U.S. Navy. The Navy also pays...
...cyclotron keeps a busy schedule. It is used by full-time researchers attached to the project, members of the Physics Department, and even graduate students. There is an assignment book where anyone hatching a theory or just looking for information can sign up to use the machine. The cyclotron usually operates all day, often at night, and over the weekends as well...
...cyclotron's control brick building on Oxford Street is a big control panel and with row on row of dials, and a plethora of red, green, and orange lights. From here operator can control everything on inside the big concrete walls. the operator, up against the wall, is a triple tier of counters on stilts which merrily click and boast little varicolored lights their own. Along the passageway to the gray edifice are large boxes with additional controls. Cyclotron consists of three major...