skip to content

Cavendish Laboratory : Oliphant's accelerator (1933)

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Black and white photograph of Oliphant's accelerator and apparatus (counters, etc) against a wall. Oliphant designed and built this simplified version of the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator which operated up to voltages of 200 kV and produced fluxes of protons one hundred times greater than the earlier machine. Walter Andrews believed that this is the lead wall shielding Oliphant's proton accelerator.</p>

of


Want to know more?

Under the 'More' menu you can find metadata about the item, and information about sharing this image.

No Contents List Available
  1. Item Metadata
No Metadata Available
  1. Transcription
  1. Translation

Share

If you want to share this page with others you can send them a link to this individual page:

You can also embed the viewer into your own website or blog using the code below: