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Description: | drawing. AERE Harwell: The Cyclotron Pit, by Laurence Scarfe, August 1950. Watercolour; 40x53.5cm. Signed in ink over pencil, blc. Title in pencil, tlc. Depicts the 110 inch synchro-cyclotron. Upper magnet coil drum, tl, above vacuum pump, lower magnet coil drum partly visible below. Manipulating gear in horizontal brass tube. Accelerated particles - protons or neutrons - are collimated by holes in concrete blocks (red). Holes in concrete shielding blocks (grey) allow particles to pass through. Lead shielding blocks, foreground. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | drawing | Temporal: | 1950 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Scarfe, Laurence | Identifier: | 01/03/1952 | Go to resource |
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