A few pictures of the OSU Van de Graaff particle accelerator, which was capable of a whopping 7MeV on a good day. Fiddling low energy even by 1970 standards, though the polarized beam source being tested in the fourth image provided a lot of good data over the years.
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- Outside view of the lab – the machine and tank storage shelf were in the white tower
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- Van de Graaff machine with tank and dome (upper right) removed, and maintenance platform in place
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- Pressure tank parked on storage shelf above and to one side of the Van de Graaff machine
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- Testing the beam source bottle and electronics before closing and conditioning the machine for a run
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- Beam analyzing magnet below the machine in the target room
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- Individual experiments in the target room
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- Magnet and machine control panels
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- Analyzing electronics
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- A brief history of physics
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- Economics
“Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.” ― Paul Dirac
“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” ― Werner Heisenberg
“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.” ― Erwin Schrödinger
Thanks for the research and pictures! Do you know what happened to the lab? It was demolished 8 years ago and I can’t find any articles on why.
No, I didn’t even know it had been demolished. I worked there in the 1970’s, running the electronics shop…