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I have images in hand of larger cylindrical Hirsch- Meeks grids from the 60s! Gene Meeks was in charge of testing them out and said they worked just fine. They never got a chance ...

... things Farnsworth did in the entire fusor episode. Source: Initially - Gene Meeks Confirmation: Fred Haak, Steven Blaising, George Bain Phil was so absolutely sure that ...

... of all project engineering and had a EE Masters degree) Right after Meeks, George Bain was the longest fusor team member in the effort (59-68). ... stay on at ITT and retire comfortably in the 1980's. Farnsworth and Gene Meeks did have offices in Brigham Young University, but only Meeks actually ...

... under Andrew Gardner and Robert Bass from about 1968 to 1972 or 73. Gene Meeks was out there during this period assisting in the effort. But, ultimately, the program ...

... in the Farnsworth fusion effort after Farnsworth left in 1965. He and Gene Meeks were the inventors of the simpler fusor we use here, now. He is also the former head ...

I believe this is the one known as "Two Prime." It's one of the machines that Gene Meeks was most familiar with, and produced some of the best numbers in the Pontiac St. lab.

Where'd you get the picture, and why do you ask?

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... work in Fort Wayne. We talked about the day in late 1967 when Bob and Gene Meeks rolled a portable fusor into a meeting of the committee that was considering his proposal: ...

... was any kind of "scientific paper" written about the "Two Prime," as Gene Meeks liked to call it. That machine apparently occupies a special place in his heart and mind, ...

Unfortunately, for all its beauty, the Mk II was a very poor performer. Gene and Steve Blasing and even the project engineer, George Bain on the ... more than 10e6 neutrons/sec, if that. The final simple fusor by Hirsch/Meeks produced on the order of 10E8 or more neutrons/sec. The gunned, "Cave" ...

... a landmark event. While gone, the techs held a conclave and one asked Gene Meeks what the bleeder values were in the shiney, new, giant Universal Voltronics power supply ...