Department of Physics records, 1870-1983

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Series III: Pupin Cyclotron Laboratory

This short series, contained in record carton 28, is organized alphabetically by subject. Most of these materials relate to infrastructural problems relating to the laboratory. For example, folder 28.26 relates contracting work done in the mid-1950s to supply the laboratory with sufficient electrical power; folder 28.31 relates efforts to procure a spectrometer for the lab around the same time. These subject files include correspondence, notes, blueprints, diagrams, and other office records.



Box 28 Folder 1 Air Conditioning, 1951-1955


Box 28 Folder 2 Alternating Current Supply, 1939-1953


Box 28 Folder 3 Chemistry Lab Floorplans, 1955


Box 28 Folder 4 Coils, new, 1940


Box 28 Folder 5 Console, 1948


Box 28 Folder 6 Control Room/Counting Room, 1955-1959


Box 28 Folder 7 Cranes, 2, 5, and 20 ton, 1954-1955


Box 28 Folder 8 Cryogenic Laboratory, 1937-1947


Box 28 Folder 9 Cyclotron Maintenance and Repair - Miscellaneous, 1939-1944


Box 28 Folder 10 Cylinder Record Book, 1947-1952


Box 28 Folder 11 Dees, Spinning, 1935-1955


Box 28 Folder 12 Diesel Connection MD, 1936-1937


Box 28 Folder 13 Gas Handling, 1953-1956


Box 28 Folder 14 Grout Plate, 1952-1954


Box 28 Folder 15 H. Lines, 1936


Box 28 Folder 16 Humidity Control, 1954-1955


Box 28 Folder 17 Inventory, of materials transferred to Dunning, 1945


Box 28 Folder 18 Lecture Room Shade Circuits, 1927-1940


Box 28 Folder 19 Magnets - Coils, Photostats, Carriage, 1927-1940


Box 28 Folder 20 Modification Program Correspondence (radiation safety), 1954-1955


Box 28 Folder 21 Motor Generator Set, 1939-1952


Box 28 Folder 22 One Hundred Channel PH Analyzer, 1955


Box 28 Folder 23 Oscillator, 1936


Box 28 Folder 24 Plates for Console, 1937


Box 28 Folder 25 Plumbing for Labs, 1926-1932


Box 28 Folder 26 Power, 1953-1955


Box 28 Folder 27 Pressure Piping, 1955


Box 28 Folder 28 Rectifiers, 1928-1936


Box 28 Folder 29 Rigging, for tank installation, 1953-1956


Box 28 Folder 30 Scheduling and Shipping, 1928-1955


Box 28 Folder 31 Spectrometer Procurement, 1954-1956


Box 28 Folder 32 Stockroom Reorganization, undated


Box 28 Folder 33 Water Barrier Tanks, 1939