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Cavendish Laboratory : Photograph of the 1MV accelerator in the High Tension laboratory

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Unlike the original Cockcroft and Walton accelerator, the 1 and 2 MeV machines were bought commercially from the Phillips Company. The High Tension Laboratory was built in 1937 on a site adjacent to the Austin Wing. Eventually it was converted into the Cockcroft lecture theatre with practical laboratories on the upper two floors.</p>

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