The Cockcroft of the Cockcroft-Walton charge-pump voltage multiplier circuit is also the Cockcroft – Sir John Cockcroft – who un-popularly insisted that particle filters were fitted to the tops of the tall chimneys of two early British nuclear reactors built in Cumbria. Initially called Cockcroft’s Follies – they were visually difficult structures – one of ...
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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/engineer-in-wonderland/nuclear-disaster-high-voltage-got-common-2017-05/
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