The History of Accelerator Technology

The first accelerators were in the 30s and 40s. They got more powerful in the 50s, which is what Harold did like the era of the particle zoo as people were smashing particles together at higher energies. It basically started with just accelerate things over a gap and then people tried to reuse that gap multiple times. So essentially, you arrange the charges to give you an electric field to push on an electron and that will accelerate it.