Technician operates the control board of a cyclotron, St. Louis, Missouri, 1945
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Photograph. Man at control board of a cyclotron, an apparatus in which charged atomic and subatomic particles are accelerated by an alternating electric field while following an outward spiral or circular path in a magnetic field. Official Caption: "This is the control board of the cyclotron, protected from its destructive rays by impervious walls. The technician regulates the electric energy to be applied for transforming a stable element into an unstable one with radioactive properties. 6533-D." St. Louis, Missouri, United States. 1945
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1945
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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.
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Saint Louis
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38.617
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-90.183
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Particle accelerators--Missouri
Control rooms--Missouri