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Robert J. Van de Graaff demonstrates a scale model of the Round Hill device to MIT alumni in New York City. (Sourrce: MIT Department of Physics website).
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Robert Jemison Van de Graaff is known as a pioneering experimental atomic physicist best known for inventing the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator (also referred to as a particle accelerator) and the insulating-core transformer (ICT). Van de Graaff, together with John George Trump, founded High Voltage Engineering Corporation (aka HVEC or HVE)...
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... were fairly large but could fit in a one-or two-storey room, in most cases. Van de Graaff's first generators were human-sized demonstrator models (such as in Figure 1 above). Once at MIT, he and his team built the monstrously large device (approx. ...
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... at MIT, he and his team built the monstrously large device (approx. 60 feet or 18 metres tall) that is so famously associated with his name and which still exists as a working historical exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston (see Figure 14). ...
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... built at Round Hill in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, it would eventually be redesigned into a thoroughly unexciting large cylinder (see Figure 10 and 11). In all cases, these machines shrunk, compacted, and increased in power until an optimum commercially-viable and useful size and design was settled upon (and, ultimately, dictated by the practical limitations of the design's energy output). ...
