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General Electric's medical electron synchroton from 1956 looked like a toaster for a 100-foot giant
(hexbear.net)
https://broughttolight.ucsf.edu/2013/12/03/stones-synchrotron/
This compelling photograph (which, despite appearances, is not a scene from a sci-fi movie) depicts Dr. Robert Stone with the machine he created, the 70MeV electron synchroton. The synchrotron was a type of particle accelerator used to treat cancer patients with radiation from 1956 to 1964. Stone’s work contributed greatly to the safe clinical use of radiation.
This photo makes me feel very strange, like I'm looking at the elephant foot from Chernobyl, or some cosmic horror, idk. But I like it, very cool. I want to find this thing wherever they mothballed it in person.
It's very unsettling
I think it evokes a sort of megalophobia feeling for me. Hotspur's comment made me realize this.