Now I have an xray machine to play with at work, I can take photographs of the insides of things. I shall make full use of this. Here’s an old transistor to start with. Image details : Mullard OC44 PNP Germanium transistor, glass envelope. 90kV polychromatic xrays, filtered with 1.5mm Al and 0.2 mm Cu. …
Category Archives: science
Neutrons
Last week I went off to ISIS at RAL to fire neutrons at layers of fats and dye to find out how they stick together.I now have to crunch the data to see if we learned anything useful. I took some photos of the particle accelerator (while standing on top of it) and the neutron …
Darwin200
Happy Darwin Day
The rarely seen.
After a long relaxing weekend in Germany, it’s best to ease yourself back into work gently. What better way to do this than to take advantage of contacts and go on a guided tour of the Royal London Hospital museum and medical school samples collection? The tour had been arranged just over two months ago, …
LHC
It worked! Clockwise and anti-clockwise beams though the ring with minimal tweeking of the focus and steering parameters. Yay!