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...brimming over with high hopes for the Atomic Age. Already G.E. had committed itself to an extensive program of basic atomic research. At the Knolls, outside Schenectady, the company will build a 300-acre research center to house its dangerous new activities. Meanwhile, armed with their 100,000,000-volt betatron and other high-voltage machines, its scientists are studying the "meson," a mysterious, sub-atomic particle which may hold the key to a revolutionary course of atomic power...
...biggest week for nuclear physics since the Smyth Report came out. Scientists of the General Electric Co.' announced that their mighty betatron, which generates 100 million-volt X rays, had shattered not only atoms but also attacked the sub-atomic particles themselves. Bombarding neutrons and protons with their powerful X ray, the G.E. men had produced mesons*-particles whose mass is partway between a proton and an electron...
...only because the heaviest of all elements had been cracked wide open, but because of the tremendous energy profit. Up to then, scientists had always had to put more energy into their projectiles than was released in the breakup. Now, an explosion of about 200,000,000 electron-volts was touched off by idling neutrons of less than one electron-volt. Matter equal to about one-fifth of a neutron's mass was converted into energy according to the Einstein formula...
...million-volt tube shows up a flaw only .01 inch thick as a clear shadow, even through 16 inches of steel. In penetrating thick steel, the tube is more effective in one hour's exposure than a one-million-volt tube would be in a week, or a half-million-volt tube in an exposure of 500 years...
...railroad. Just after dark we got about 400 yards offshore. A train popped out of the tunnel and we fired. The first shell exploded just inside the cab where the driver was. Several of our shells hit the posts which carry the electric line. It was a 5,000-volt system. For about a mile there was a solid sheet of flame where the wires swung against the ground. The bushes and stuff were dry. They caught fire, and made a most beautiful blaze...