Mystery Gadget 43

What machine requires such weird protective gear?

The answer is here.

And after the jump.

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Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 23, 2017
Category: Technology | 1940s

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From Wikipedia: The U.S. DOD famously asked for dailies of the Superman comic strip to be pulled in April 1945 for having Superman bombarded with the radiation from a cyclotron. In 1950 however, Lex Luthor uses a cyclotron to start an earthquake.

Posted by Virtual on 02/23/17 at 10:11 AM

By that description, Virtual, it sounds like there isn't anything the cyclotron can't do!

Posted by KDP on 02/23/17 at 10:55 AM

Seriously, my girlfriend loved me in that mask and gloves getup, especially if we were going to be cutting onions later.

Posted by greg on 02/23/17 at 11:05 AM

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