Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor

I added some photos of a Farnsworth Fusor demo that I attended a number of years ago to my gallery pages.
What is a ‘Fusor’ you ask? Wikipedia says it best:

The Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor, or simply fusor, is an apparatus designed by Philo T. Farnsworth to create nuclear fusion. Unlike most controlled fusion systems, which slowly heat a magnetically confined plasma, the fusor injects “high temperature” ions directly into a reaction chamber, thereby avoiding a considerable amount of complexity.

It was fascinating to see this in action, even if it wasn’t producing neutrons. That was probably for the best, I doubt the glass would have stopped them very well. I was pretty close and I doubt my camera would have provided much shielding either.
Farnsworth Gallery

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