Re: cockroff

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Original poster: "Dr. John Gudenas by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <comsciprof-at-ameritech-dot-net>

I'll let the Brits. on the list field this one as it belongs to one of their
own. Sir John D. Cockcroft a Nobel Laureate from 1951, instrumental in the
early development of particle accelerators with his voltage multiplier. I
have seen some of the largest, first at Argonne in the late 1960's when I
was in High Energy Physics then later at Fermi Lab, three miles from my
University where I teach, in their old injector.

Ok you folks in the UK. Tell the story of the voltage multiplier (providing
Terry considers it on target*).
John W. G.

John W. Gudenas, Ph.D.
Department Chair of Computational and Natural Science
Aurora University, 347 S. Gladstone, Aurora, IL 60506

* voltage multipliers are useful for Tesla coils :-)  - T.

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Subject: cockroff


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> Forgive my lack of knowledge but ,all week on the list is"cockroff" . Now
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> course this is H.V. but exactly what? How does it work? How is a simple
> one(if there is such a thing) made? Thanks guys,the list still amazes me!
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