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Image File: 96602513
Title: Van de Graaff Generator
Description: Robert J. Van de Graaff, who worked briefly in a power plant in Alabama, devised his electrostatic generator as a source of direct- current power. After a year at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, he adapted his system to the acceleration of particles. (The preceding information was excerpted from the text of the Fall 1981 issue of LBL Newsmagazine.) Photo courtesy of the American Institute of Physics.
Citation Caption: LBL NEWS Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1981, p. 7 | Early particle accelerators, like MIT's Van de Graaff machine, had difficulty containing the high voltages required.
Equipment: Van de Graaff machine
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