A Bitter electromagnet plate

APR 27 2008

A Bitter electromagnet plate

One of the perforated copper disks that are stacked to build a Bitter electromagnet. Francis Bitter's 1930s design is what makes continuous fields of 16 tesla and above possible, and it is a Bitter solenoid at Nijmegen that levitated the frog. CC0, 1058x1040.

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