Today Fermilab's iconic Cockroft-Walton generators will send out their last beam. The following article ran in Tuesday's issue of Fermilab Today. Fermilab has had many different accelerators in its ...

There’s something satisfying about creating high voltages. Sure, there are practical uses like neon signs or doing certain experiments, but be honest — you really just want to see some giant arcs ...

Shan Macdonald, Curatorial assistant for Scientific Instruments selected this object from the Hunterian Museum's collection. Shan writes - This apparatus is named after Cockcroft and Walton, who in ...