Word: injector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light--not too great a change in percentage terms. What does increase dramatically is the energy (and the mass). At the beginning of an experiment, a beam of electrons may have a rest energy of 1/2 million electron volts; it is directed through a linear "pre-accelerator" (or "injector") where the energy is increased to 20 million electron volts. Then, in the accelerator proper, the energy may be raised to the maximum of 6 billion electron volts...
...Sarnoffs first became interested in the problem in 1951. They rejected the semi-automatic injectors then in use as too cumbersome and complicated, but it took them two years and 31 different models to find a more efficient atropine injector, which they dubbed...
...Thomas H. Alphin, Chemical Warfare Consultant of the Civil Defense administration, says, "Because of the speed and simplicity of the Ace injector, the saving of thousands who would otherwise succumb will be possible...