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Image File: 96602527
Title: David Sloan and J.J. Livingood and Sloan x-ray tube
Description: David Sloan and J.J. Livingood work on the Sloan x-ray tube. Sloan was reassigned to a project designed to keep alive philanthropic interest in the Rad Lab. Lawrence's backers, the Research Corporation and the Chemical Foundation, had just succeeded in breaking General Electric's patent on high-energy x-ray tubes. In hopes of supporting other scientific enquiries by its investments in accelerator technology, the Research Corporation patented not only the Sloan x-ray tube, but also the cyclotron and the Van de Graaff accelerator. (The preceding information was excerpted from the text of the Fall 1981 issue of LBL Newsmagazine.)
Citation Caption: LBL NEWS Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1981, p. 15 | David Sloan and J. J. Livingood work on the Sloan x-ray tube built at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco in 1932-3. With this machine, Lawrence's backers hoped to break the stranglehold of the large electrical manufacturers on the high-voltage x-ray tube market.
Date: 1932
People: David Sloan, J. J. Livingood
Equipment: Sloan x-ray tube
TEID Doc ID: XBD 9606-02527.TIF