Experimental Study of Ionized Matter Projected across a Magnetic Field in Physical Review 104, 2, October 15, 1956, pp. 292-300 [PLASMA GUN & PLASMOIDS]
FIRST EDITION IN NEAR FINE ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLASMA GUN AS WELL AS THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF PLASMOIDS, coherent structures of plasma and magnetic fields that Bostick argues are force-free, charge-carrying ‘strings’ (Bostick, 1956). The front page of the New York Times heralded..... More