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At the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, Cockcroft and Walton built a 500 kilovolt accelerator in 1932.
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The 2.7 MeV accelerator was developed by Robert Van de Graaff and installed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1937.
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2 MeV Van de Graaff electrostatic accelerator belonging to the Physics Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico since 1952.
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The 3 GeV cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratories in New York. The photograph dates from 1954.
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The 28 GeV proton synchroton at CERN in Geneva. This accelerator operated for the first time in 1959.
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Stanford's linear accelerator, which is 3.2 kilometers long, can produce very high-energy electrons and protons. At the bottom right of the photograph is a storage ring, the SPEAR, which is about 75 meters in diameter.
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One of the experimental areas of SLAC, the Stanford linear accelerator. Here you see one of the great magnetic spectrometers
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Fermilab's Tevatron, the first superconducting machine to come into operation. This is today the highest energy accelerator in the world.
