Mendelevium Discovery of a New Element

Scientists at the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley create Mendelevium, element 101 using an atom smasher/cyclotron on the U.C. Berkeley campus in 1955. To transport the test samples between the campus and the chemistry lab Al Ghiorso races up the hill in a 1954 supercharged VW bug.

[@mrJety89]

I work with such a machine, and the knobs definitely do not sound like an old tunable radio. The suble humor is mouch appreciated though.

[@LyneisFilm]

I agree. In those old control room most of the noise was from fans cooling power supplies and electronics. The original film was silent, so I did use foley and sound effects. So was the operator adjusting the magnet field or tuning the RF? We will never know.

[@masonperry9178]

Subscribed for the squirrel videos but this is also much appreciated. Fascinating process

[@LyneisFilm]

Awesome, thank you!

[@joecopp]

Great job on the foley.

[@LyneisFilm]

It was fun adding the foley. Good enough to fool some viewers.

[@GlideLA]

The sound effects were comic genius. Kudos to KQED and you for the production and voice over. I too was intrigued after viewing the squirrel videos.

[@teresahammett2200]

Love the video and explanation, thanks!

[@jameshammons2354]

Makes me reevaluate lacrosse!

[@LyneisFilm]

Lacrosse is great, but out during the pandemic.

[@samblackstone3400]

It's really impressive how sensitive those devices are.

[@SailingSarah]

@2:00 you'd get at least beat up by police for driving like that these days lol Nice work doc! 🙃

[@LyneisFilm]

That would make the video more exciting!

[@Matt_from_Florida]

1:48 Judson supercharger?

[@LyneisFilm]

need more info.

[@LyneisFilm]

Did they work on VW bugs??

[@Matt_from_Florida]

@@LyneisFilm Yeah, Judson was the #1 supercharger for imported cars. They made a kit to to fit any imported car that was sold in quantity in the USA.

[@zemtek420]

You need to tell ya wife that your ugly anti squirrel set up is earning her a trip to Hawaii. So far those 2 videos have far out done anything else on your channel. You should do more of those.

[@jameshammons2354]

Never underestimate a squirrel, hope the quarantine lifts by summer

[@LyneisFilm]

You are correct sir! The views on the two squirrel videos now total 2 million views. 16 years of lacrosse videos total 900 thousand views. There must be a lesson in there somewhere.