Dipole Power Bank in the shape of a CERN Large Hadron Collider dipole magnet, c2017
Dipole Power Bank in a novelty power bank in the shape of a CERN Large Hadron Collider dipole magnet, c2017. 4400mAh, 1.5A, 16.28 Wh. With Mini USB port. Object is branded CERN but does not have any manufacturer information.
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This object is representative of power banks used for increasingly power hunger mobile electronic devices especially smartphones in the mid/late 2010s. It is also a novelty power bank representing 1% of the energy stored in a real dipole magnet, one of the 1232 real-life 35-tonne and 15-metre dipole magnets used at the iconic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. LHC bends the paths of the protons moving at 99.999991% of the speed of light along the 27-kilometre LHC ring. The LHC was the subject of the Science Museum Collider exhibition at the Science Museum in 2013-2014 and later touring.
- Object Number:
- 2022-1407/1
- type:
- power bank