Re: cockroff

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Original poster: "Mike Harrison by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mike-at-whitewing.co.uk>

On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:05:24 -0600, you wrote:

>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>
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>Hi John, All, 
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>> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" < 
>> Mildewhaus-at-aol-dot-com> 
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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! 
>>                                                    john in nyc 
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>Sir John D Cockcroft and Ernest T.S. Walton developed the first linear 
>particle accelerator. A Cockroft-Walton Generator as it is known was still 
>being used at Argonne National Laboratory when I was visiting there in '86 to 
>provide first stage acceleration (750 Kev) for their synchrotron. 
>Matt D.
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You can see one of their original multipliers in the London Science
Museum - very impressive looking (but onfortunately not operational!).
Most of it is in the new 'Making of the Modern World' gallery, and
there is also another part in the nuclear physics section.