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The cyclotron at Berkeley
1931
Berkeley, California
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Ernest Lawrence's first cyclotron was four inches across and made of brass and sealing wax. The machines that followed produced plutonium for the Manhattan Project and sixteen elements that did not previously exist on Earth.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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