Two diagrams of Cockcroft and Walton's apparatus for the artificial disintegration of the elements by swift protons Diagrams of Cockcroft and Walton's apparatus
Electromagnetic pump demonstration, comprising perspex rectangle to contain mercury driven by magnets; mercury carries current. On black base 395mm x 370mm, with metal plate inscribed "Model supplied by UK AEA Instrument development dept., Risley Nuclear Laboratories". Date of manufacture, c.1982. Electromagnetic pump demonstration
Photograph showing the collision of an alpha-ray with an oxygen atom in a hydrogen-filled expansion chamber Collision of an alpha-ray with an oxygen atom
Copies of two pioneer cloud-track photographs, (from photos lend by Prof. C.T.R. Wilson) ( see Royal Society's Proceedings, "A", vol.85, plate 9, figs.1.2 1911) Copies of two pioneer cloud-track photographs