Seeing Cool Places on Instagram: "This massive particle accelerator changed science forever, but now, this piece of history is just laying on its side, rusting away. So, what happened? The Westinghouse Atom Smasher once looked like this, when it was a pivotal application of nuclear technology. The Van de Graaff generator was developed in 1937, and was able, for the first time, to make specific measurements of nuclear reactions. Credited with helping scientists worldwide understand quantum physic