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by kalimanzaro
1524 days ago
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The article mentions that the race venue used to house the world's largest (traditional, HV) electron microscopes at one time. I thought it would be cool if these towers were actually for that but it seems likely the place is just a science museum of sorts now. Or maybe they are some sort of fancy (electrostatic) dust collector? |
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That's apparently part of the first 1MeV TEM. Should be the high voltage source for the electron gun. The electron optics were most likely magnetic, not electrostatic.
There is a whole movie about it:
https://images.cnrs.fr/en/video/1257
Later MeV TEMs looked very different, and are now replaced by aberration corrected tools...