Records of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, 1952-1974.

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Records of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, 1952-1974.

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The Records of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator provide detailed and comprehensive documentation of the founding, activities, and closing of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. The records contain proposals for the accelerator and document construction of the facility. Records reveal details of daily administrative tasks, including staffing, experiments, apparatus, the relationship of the facility to other accelerators, to educational institutions, and to the federal government. The records also document the closing of the facility, including efforts to relocate personnel and materials. Information is in the form of correspondence and memoranda, reports, manuals, logbooks, minutes of staff meetings, personnel records, drawings, blueprints, photographs, motion picture film and videocassettes.

ca. 148 boxes, 3 reels of film, 6 videocassettes, and 1 portfolio folder

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8182261

Harvard University Archives.

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