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Cyclotron Image Gallery

Image Gallery for the Cyclotron Facility website: www.nasa.gov/cyclotron/. NASA's former Cyclotron Facility was built in the 1950s to study effects of radiation on materials for nuclear aircraft engines. The research expanded to general nuclear physics, the effect of solar radiation, and production of medical isotopes. In the 1970s and 1980s the Cleveland Clinic Foundation used the cyclotron to study the effect of fast neutrons on cancerous tumors.

The cyclotron at NASA Lewis Research Center irradiates a crystal in 1963.
Cyclotron emitting laser beam
The NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory as it appeared in May 1946. The Cyclotron would be built at the far...
Aerial view of the NASA Lewis campus.
A crane lowers the massive yoke into the cyclotron construction site at the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (6/10/1949).
Two men on a large yoke in construction zone.
Model of a nuclear-powered bomber (1958).
Model of atomic bomber.
An NACA researcher discusses high temperature materials research during the 1947 Inspection.
Man with materials research exhibit.
Benjamin Pinkel was Chief of the Materials and Thermodynamics Division from 1943 to 1956.
Man sitting at desk.
A model of the NACA's Materials & Stresses Building which housed the cyclotron control room (1947).
Model of two story U-shaped building.
Entrance to the Lewis Research Center's Materials & Stresses Building shortly after its construction (9/8/1949).
Building entrance at night.
A NACA chemist examines surface crack detention apparatus in the Materials and Stresses Building (12/4/1952).
Woman in chemistry lab.
Elevation drawings of the NACA Cyclotron Facility (1948).
Cyclotron elevation drawing.
Blueprint drawing of the Cyclotron that was built at the NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory.
Blueprint drawing.
Cyclotron Components
Diagram of the Lewis cyclotron.
An engineer examines the support equipment for the cyclotron at the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (10/27/1949).
Closeup of cyclotron magnets.
Delivery of the yoke for the cyclotron to NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in June 1949.
Box strapped to Flatbed truck.
A crane lowers the massive yoke and magnets into the cyclotron construction site at the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory(6/10/1949).
Crane lowering yoke into pit.
A crane lowers a section of the yoke into the cyclotron construction site at the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory...
Crane lowering yoke into pit.
Construction of the the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory's Materials & Stresses Building with the excavation for the cyclotron in...
Aerial view of construction site.
Transportation of equipment into the Vault Room at the Cyclotron Facility (3/26/1951).
Equipment brought into Vault Room.
Electric panels inside the Cyclotron Facility (8/26/1949).
Electrical panels in large room.
Installation of a General Electric generator in the Cyclotron Facility in August 1949.
Man with compressor unit.
An engineer examines the support equipment for the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory cyclotron (10/27/1949).
Closeup of large cyclotron magnets.
Installation of large magnet ring around a magnet pole for the cyclotron at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
Man examining two large magnets.
Black and white image of the cyclotron facility
Drawing of the Lewis Research Center's cyclotron yoke and magnets.
Magnets and yoke diagram.
Royal Schweiger was instrumental in getting the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory's cyclotron operating (1956).
Man working on test equipment.
Researcher Jim Blue and a colleague operate the Zero Power Reactor at Lewis Research Center in 1958.
Woman and man with equipment.
James Blue supervised the operation and research at the Cyclotron Facility from 1957 until the 1980s (1960).
Portrait of man.
Aerial view of the Materials and Stresses Building with the grass-covered area above the Cyclotron Facility in April 1955.
Aerial view of U-shaped building.
The Materials & Stresses Building with the turf-covered cyclotron in the foreground (1955).
Aerial of the M&S Building.
Researchers examine the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory's newly completed 60-inch cyclotron in September 1957.
Large cyclotron in larger room.
The Lewis Research Center's cyclotron producing a beam to irradiate a crystal in July 1963.
Cyclotron producing beam.
Interior of the Cyclcotron Facility's new Target Room before installation of equipment (5/28/1957).
Large empty room with white walls.
Excavation for the Target Room addition to the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory's Cyclotron Facility (9/16/1956).
Car parked in front of mound of dirt.
Construction workers install the flooring for the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory's Cyclotron Facility in September 1956.
Aerial view of construction site.
Floor plans showing the addition of the Target Room to the NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory's Cyclotron Facility.
Floor Plans
Diagram showing the liquid-hydrogen test apparatus used for the test program at Lewis Research Center's Cyclotron Facility.
Diagram of test apparatus.
Researchers at NASA's Lewis Research Center examine a model of a water moderated nuclear rocket engine (1963).
Men with nuclear rocket model.
A researcher ast NASA's Lewis Research Center measures heat transfer pressure drop for nuclear rocket engines (1959).
Man looking at test apparatus.
An illustration of the proposed NERVA nuclear rocket (1964).
Nuclear rocket illustration.
Jim Blue examines equipment to be installed for the upgrade of the Lewis Research Center's cyclotron (6/26/1969).
Researcher examines shipment.