AERE Harwell: The Cyclotron Pit
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- AERE Harwell
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Drawing, watercolour, AERE Harwell: The Cyclotron Pit, by Laurence Scarfe, August 1950. 40 x 53.5 cm. Signed in ink over pencil, blc. Title in pencil, tlc. Depicts the 110 inch synchro-cyclotron. Upper magnet coil drum, tl, above vacuum pump, lower magnet coil drum partly visible below. Manipulating gear in horizontal brass tube. Accelerated particles - protons or neutrons - are collimated by holes in concrete blocks (red). Holes in concrete shielding blocks (grey) allow particles to pass through. Lead shielding blocks, foreground.
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- Category:
- Art
- Object Number:
- 1952-3/1
- Measurements:
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overall: 400 x 535 mm
- type:
- watercolour and drawing
- credit:
- Laurence Scarfe
