The Machine That Split the Atom | Here's The Thing… About The Cockcroft-Walton Generator
13K views · Oct 4, 2024 · Science & Technology
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@DurrBusDriver · 1 year ago
I worked at Fermilab (called Tevatron at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE68GCN_bC0&t=505">8:25</a>) when the Cockroft-Walton was running, it fed particles into the accumulator. Walking through that area would erase your credit cards. You always keep one hand in your pocket so you wouldn't accidentally short out.
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@zack_120 · 1 year ago
A great milestone of particle physics !
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@robertdixon8238 · 1 year ago (edited)
Thanks. Smaller versions of the Cockcroft-Walton multiplier were used to drive CRTs in BW & especially colour TVs, which required up to 30 kV. The basic circuit is routinely used today to generate voltages greater than 1,000 Volts using low cost diodes and capacitors on PCBs. Elegantly simple architecture. Thanks for showing us the original.
@bbb-k6v · 1 year ago
Good video
@GianniLaschi · 1 year ago
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@pauleohl · 7 months ago
I know more than I did before I watched, but I still do not know just what the construction of the device you showed is. Why so big? why is the capacitor so large? Circuits have conductors. Where are the conductors? where did the ac enter. Where did the dc exit? Why so many rectifiers? A bridge rectifier has 4 diodes. Was single phase or 3 phase supplied to this machine? What was the construction of the tube where the protons/hydrogen nuclei were accelerated?
@ZogoulaQuinn · 4 months ago
The large original (2 stories high) Van de Graf generator is located at the Boston Science Museum where it still operates for demonstration shows. It could reach 1.5 million volts on a good day.
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