In d mammoth balluon-shaped tank containing a forty-foot vucuuni tubo, scientists soon will bombard atnms in their effort to solvo the niysteries of the structure of matter, states Popular Mechanics. Tlie tank itself is thirty feet wide and forty-sevcn feet liigh. Its elcctrostatic generatcr will develop 5,01X1,000 volts to speed particles of matter tbrough the gigantic tube at velocities as high as 100,000,000 miles an kour. As these particles travel at an inconceivable speed they will be counted, measured and identified by special instruments. The atom smasher will be | located at the Westingbouse laboratoI ries in Bast Pittsbnrgh.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 26, 23 October 1937, Page 7
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