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The atom is split: beginning of the atomic age...
The atom is split: beginning of the atomic age...
Item # 698093
May 02, 1932
FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Massachusetts, May 2, 1932 The front page has a somewhat inconspicuous yet very historic report which notes the very beginning of the "atomic age" with a one-column heading: "Hail English Scientists Who Broke Atom".
See the internet which mentions Cockcroft and Walton as being the first to split the atom.
The end of the article has: "...Optimistic scientists long have hoped to split an atom...that when this feat was accomplished a boundless source of energy would be available. There have been extremists who feared the accomplishment would mean the hurling of the world to destruction."
Complete in 12 pages, very nice condition.
Category: The 20th Century
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