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Generator built by Robert Jemison Van de Graaff displayed at Alumni dinner, 1933

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Attendees at the Alumni Association dinner at Hotel Statler crowd around a Van de Graaff generator on display.

Original caption 1: "A demonstration in the ballroom foyer of the Hotel Statler of a model of the electric static generator producing 1,000,000 volts which is being constructed at Round Hills [sic], the estate of Col. E. H. R. Green at South Dartmouth."

Original caption 2: "58th annual dinner of the Alumni Association Feb. 4 1933".

Used in: Technology Review, Feburary 1958 p. 197; Boston Herald, February 5, 1933, March 1933.