Historical images the Cafeteria cart fusor - Bob Hirsch

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Historical images the Cafeteria cart fusor - Bob Hirsch

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Back in August of 1999 I visited Bob Hirsch at his business office in Washington, DC. He retained, (pilfered), the famous cafeteria cart fusor, (often called the Hirsch-Meeks fusor), from when he left ITT in 1968. This was the device that was demo'd before the AEC in that year by Hirsch, as ITT wished to turn their project over to the AEC. The demo was a complete success and stunned all the big boys at the meeting, including Amasa Bishop, (author of the book Project Sherwood. This book told of all of the fusion efforts up to 1958 of the U.S. secret Project Sherwood. From 1958 onward, the bulk of U.S. fusion power research was unclassified.

Alas, in spite of this demo, the AEC was already funding a lot of different fusion programs, they refused to take on the fusor effort. As it turned out, and as everyone now knows, not a single one of those projects bore fruit or did any fusion to even a tiny fraction of their input energy.

I attach a number of images from different perspectives for your edification.

Richard Hull
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