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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