Technician and assistant working on the Cyclotron, St. Louis, Missouri, 1945

Description: 

Photograph. Technician (kneeling) and assistant working on large physical research machine called the Cyclotron. Official Caption: "This picture shows the Cyclotron, a complicated apparatus for physical research, which looks more like a big industrial machine. Here a technician (kneeling) and an assistant make the final adjustments of the Cyclotron before exposing the red phosphorus paste to deuteron rays to make it radioactive. The cyclotron was built in an underground room to protect passers-by from being inadvertently exposed to the harmful radiation. (6533-B).”St. Louis, Missouri, United States. 1945
See also: 2012.019.470/6533A, .479/6533E, .589/6533D, .614/6533F, .623/6533C
Also refer to in this collection: 6533 are three different series of photos. 6533-# (up to number 8) and another series, identified by letters early in the alphabet about the Cyclotron and other things. Then a third series of two photos, 6533T (.619) and an unknown other.

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.501
Date: 
1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Research facilities--Missouri
Machinery--Missouri
Collection Level: 
Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
Saint Louis
Latitude: 
38.617
Longitude: 
-90.183
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Research facilities--Missouri
Machinery--Missouri