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Winfield W. Salisbury At Collins Radio |
| With the sudden interest in atomic energy, Collins entered the field in 1945. It had the honor of building and installing at Brookhaven, Long Island, the world's first commercially built cyclotron. In lay terms, this an advanced type of "atom smasher.'' This was followed by a similar installation at Argon, near Chicago, in 1951. From then on, the Korean situation compelled the company to apply its entire production to war materials.
After the conclusion of World War II, Winfield Salisbury was to
join Collins Radio and head up the Research and Development Department. In
his collection at the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and
Computation there is a large collection of letters, papers, Blue Prints
and photographs relating to the Cyclotron Collins was to build at
Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratories |
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And....
Here is what it looked like when finished! (http://www.bnl.gov/)
The Founding of Brookhaven, a Laboratory for Peacetime Research
In 1946, representatives from nine major eastern
universities — Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University
of
Rochester, and Yale — formed a nonprofit corporation to establish a new
nuclear-science facility, and they chose a surplus army base “way out on
Long Island” as the site. Thus, Brookhaven National Laboratory was born.
On March 21, 1947, the U.S. War Department transferred the site of Camp
Upton on Long Island to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), which was
the federal agency that oversaw the founding of Brookhaven National
Laboratory and was a predecessor to the present U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE). The AEC provided the initial funding for Brookhaven’s research
into the peaceful uses of the atom, with the goal of improving public
well-being. (For further reading go to http://www.bnl.gov/)

Photo of Control Room
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THE RESNATRON-Dr. W. W. Salisbury, director of research
for Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids, is seen
(right) with Dr. D. H. Sloan (left) and Dr. L. C. Marshall
(center), University of California scientists, as they examine various
parts for operating the Resnatron tube. More information about the
Resnatron-high frequency generator and secret heart of America's wartime
jamming of German radar warning devices-was disclosed this week. Dr.
Salisbury, who supervised the Resnatron's development for its wartime use,
is continuing his developmental studies of the device, according to
officials of the Collins Company. Information from Berkeley, Calif., where
the picture was taken, said that the Resnatron, fathered by a peacetime
X-ray tube, first began to take shape in experiments on the University of
California campus nine years ago.
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Visit this page! During this time also he was to exhibit.....
Microwave Oven At Iowa State Fair
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