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Monday, February 25, 2013

In Which The Excitement Of Combining Computer Technology With Mass Spectrometry Suddenly Seems Like An Awfully Long Time Ago


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Don said...

Dad took this in England in 1981 in connection with Associated Electrical Industries' MS-9 Mass Spectrometer that he was there to qualify for purchase. His career as an analytical chemist took a specialized turn in the 1960s when the oil industry turned towards powerful new forms of electronically enhanced analytical tools such as this time-of-flight means of destructive chemical analysis, in which a sample is broken down to the atomic level and its atomic constituents identified by the mass spectrum created by their flight across the test chamber. I always loved shit like this and more than once regretted not turning my own career into the more heavily industrial side of semiconductor development. But I had too much of that mushy liberal arts shit in my mind to become a serious engineer at that level. Instead I look at an instrumented gas chamber and wonder what kind of music I could make it play.

4:07 PM, February 26, 2013

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