ABSTRACT
Ernest Lawrence appears to have been in the habit of receiving timely communications from Berkeley while residing with the Blumer family in Connecticut. Lawrence had hoped to have the 27-inch cyclotron running by the end of February 1932. The electromagnet for the 27-inch cyclotron can be seen at the entrance to the plaza in front of the Lawrence Hall of Science on the hill above what is nowadays the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Cockcroft was an invited speaker, and Lawrence, naturally present as well, was impressed by his talk. Time was mainly impressed with Lawrence, who reported on disintegrating everything in sight with his cyclotron. The high-tension hall had a floor space measuring 32 by 36 feet, or not so different from Cockcroft and Walton's stripped Balfour Library and larger than Room 114 in Lawrence's reworked barracks building.
