title: Timeline of particle physics technology
text: # Timeline of particle physics technology
  
  Timeline of particle physics technology
  
  * 1896 - Charles Wilson discovers that energetic particles produce droplet tracks in supersaturated gases
  * 1897-1901 - Discovery of the Townsend discharge by John Sealy Townsend
  * 1908 - Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford use the Townsend discharge principle to detect alpha particles.
  * 1911 - Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamber
  * 1928 - Hans Geiger and Walther Muller invent the Geiger Muller tube, which is based upon the gas ionisation principle used by Geiger in 1908, but is a practical device that can also detect beta and gamma radiation. This is implicitly also the invention of the Geiger Muller counter.
  * 1934 - Ernest Lawrence and Stan Livingston invent the cyclotron
  * 1945 - Edwin McMillan devises a synchrotron
  * 1952 - Donald Glaser develops the bubble chamber
  * 1968 - Georges Charpak and Roger Bouclier build the first multiwire proportional mode particle detection chamber
  