What is "cyclotrons"

Usage examples of "cyclotrons".

With all of their noisy devotion to the age of science, their hysterically technological jargon, their cyclotrons, their sound rays, these men were moved forward, not by the image of an industrial skyline, but by the vision of that form of existence which the industrialists had swept away—the vision of a fat, unhygienic rajah of India, with vacant eyes staring in indolent stupor out of stagnant layers of flesh, with nothing to do but run precious gems through his fingers and, once in a while, stick a knife into the body of a starved, toil-dazed, germeaten creature, as a claim to a few grains of the creature's rice, then claim it from hundreds of millions of such creatures and thus let the rice grains gather into gems.

That stuff to the left—that's a neat little thing for doing what men have been trying to do with hundred-ton cyclotrons and so forth.

Here is learning that our ancients possessed, as did the men of alchemy, but that the builders of cyclotrons have lost.