Detection Gallery

Anti-proton experiment, Berkeley, 1955 C016/8832

Anti-proton experiment. Blackboard showing the provisional results and calculations for a series of experiments carried out in 1955 at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory to discover the antiproton. Antiprotons were made by firing protons at a copper target in an early particle accelerator. This discovery of the antiproton by physicists Emilio Segre and Owen Chamberlain (together with a separate set of experiments by another group in 1956), confirmed Dirac's prediction of antimatter. Segre and Chamberlain were awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery. Photographed on 6 October 1955, at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

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United States Air Force - Beechcraft QU-22B 69-7702

United States Air Force - Beechcraft QU-22B 69-7702 (msn EB-10) The QU-22B was developed as very quiet un-piloted relay station for the Igloo White movement detection system deployed on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos and Cambodia. On operations the aircraft was flown without a pilot but carrying an Igloo White operative. This particular aircraft was not used in the Vietnam theatre ODF operations but remained in the US and was sent to MASDC for disposal on 8 November 1972. Declared excess on 19 July 1973, it was sold with civil registration N49893. Date: 1973

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Colin Brookes-Smith table tilting research

Colin Brookes-Smith's table designed for the detection of UMA (unconscious muscular action) in table tilting. The table surface has been removed to reveal the mechanisms underneath. Brookes-Smith was an engineer and member of the Society for Psychical Research. (2 of 2) Date: 20th century

© Mary Evans Picture Library/John Cutten

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