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  2. Westinghouse Atom Smasher - Wikipedia

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    The atom smasher was shut down so that Westinghouse could focus on the electronics department. [21] Many of the contributors to the Westinghouse project moved onto find other jobs during this period of shut down, but stayed closely connected to the nuclear research that was happening during the time.

  3. Van de Graaff generator - Wikipedia

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    The Westinghouse Atom Smasher, the 5 MeV Van de Graaff generator built in 1937 by the Westinghouse Electric company in Forest Hills, Pennsylvania This Van de Graaff generator of the first Hungarian linear particle accelerator achieved 700 kV in 1951 and 1000 kV in 1952.

  4. Electrostatic particle accelerator - Wikipedia

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    The Westinghouse Atom Smasher, an early Van de Graaff accelerator built 1937 at the Westinghouse Research Center in Forest Hills, Pennsylvania. The cutaway shows the fabric belts that carry charge up to the mushroom-shaped high voltage electrode.

  5. World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Just Found ... - AOL

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    For the first time ever, physicists at the world's largest atom smasher have observed differences in the decay of particles and antiparticles containing a basic building block of matter, called ...

  6. Scientists move forward with plans for giant new atom-smasher ...

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    Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher expressed confidence Monday about moving forward with a multibillion-euro project to build a larger and more powerful particle collider that could ...

  7. Particle accelerator - Wikipedia

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    The Tevatron (background circle), a synchrotron collider type particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, Illinois, USA. Shut down in 2011, until 2007 it was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, accelerating protons to an energy of over 1 TeV (tera electron volts).

  8. Lafayette Radio Electronics - Wikipedia

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    "Criterion" brand speakers were built by several offshore and some domestic assemblers. Science kits were popular, and Lafayette offered the "Novatron", a "Miniature Atom Smasher" (van de Graaff generator), Model F-371. [5] [1]

  9. Chicago Pile-1 - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world's first artificial nuclear reactor.On 2 December 1942, the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi.