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Spring, 1947 During an experiment conducted at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, on April 24, 1947, radiation of light from an electron beam emitting from a synchrotron was observed for the very first time by Floyd Haber. This light was called ‘synchrotron radiation’. The experiment was testing a new accelerator design concept through the use of a betatron injection technique. A 70 million volt synchrotron had been built to test this injector when the observation was made. Notables Robert V. Langmuir, Herbert C. Pollock and George C. Baldwin were involved in this project, and during a test of the equipment - Langmuir and Pollock were at the controls - Haber, who was watching the machine from behind a thick concrete wall to protect him from dangerous x-rays, observed that moving electrons actually give off visible light.To commemorate the occasion, General Electric gave the very heart of the experiment - the injector itself - to the first human to see this light...Floyd Haber. He was the father of the director and founder of OAFPI. All that remains of the original experiment is this artifact.

To fund its Aquaponics and Green Energy Projects, OAFPI is entertaining bids on this injector.