Description

Black and white photo of Francis Bitter working with equipment in the MIT magnet laboratory. Original caption 1: "This Small Magnet Swallows the Output...Of Two Generators Like This. The left illustration shows Dr. Bitter and the new magnet, behemoth in power though pigmy in size, designed by him to produce a field of at least 100,000 gauss. For what it does, how it excels, what it may do, see the adjacent story." Original caption 2: "MIT Archives Info, source: Karl Taylor Compton Papers, ACC# 77-41, Folder # 23, Folder title: A-K-1935-37." Used in: Technology Review, June, 1937, p. 117.