Cascade generator for 1.5 million volt accelerator

Made:: 1937 in Cambridge and Holland

designer:: Cavendish Laboratory Cavendish Laboratory

maker:: Philips Electronics

Cascade generator for 1.5 million volt accelerator

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Cascade generator, for 1.5 million volt accelerator, designed by and built at the Cavendish Laboratory, by Philips, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England and Phillips, Holland, 1937. The 1.5 million volt accelerator was also known as voltage doubler stack.

This cascade generator was installed with the Philips Million-Volt Accelerator at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, in 1937. The generator produced the electric field (up to one million volts) used to accelerate particles such as protons and electrons during experiments using the accelerator. It generated these high voltages using a system of capacitors (which act as stores of electrical charge) and rectifiers, insulated and shielded to prevent the charge 'leaking out'.

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Category:: Nuclear Physics

Object Number:: 1982-1318

Materials:: steel (metal), aluminium alloy, chromium plated, bakelite, nickel plated, selenium and tin plated

Measurements:: overall: 4000 mm x 2000 mm x 1400 mm,

type:: accelerator, components and generators

credit:: University of Witswatersrand

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Cascade generator built at the Cavendish Laboratory

Cascade generator, designed by and built at the Cavendish Laboratory, by Philips, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England and Phillips, Holland, 1937. For Philips 1.5 million volt accelerator (also known as voltage doubler stack).