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For Susan Newton-King, the frontier era in Graaff-Reinet ended with the quelling of a two-pronged rebellion against VOC authority from 1799 to 1801.9 In Nigel Penn's view, the northern frontier closed a decade later, marked by the formal subjugation of Khoisan labor with the Caledon Code and the careful administrative scrutiny recorded in the Collins Report, both in 1809.10
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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A woman touches a Van de Graaff electricity generator at the International Trade Fair in Leipzig, Germany
Archive 2009-01-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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Bothe's institute, for example, was the first in Germany to possess accelerators such as the Van de Graaff band generator and, later on, the cyclotron.
Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics 2010
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Encouraged by these successes with the Van de Graaff band generator, Bothe made plans to build an even more powerful accelerator - a cyclotron - patterned after the invention of Sloan and Lawrence at the
Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics 2010
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I'm going to have to correct you on your spelling of Dutch surnames - it's a "van de Graaff Levitation Wand", not a "van de Graff Levitation Wand" ...
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Van de Graaff had built a band generator - an early electrostatic linear accelerator, capable of boosting the intensity of bombardment particles compared to radioactive sources.
Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics 2010
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I'm going to have to correct you on your spelling of Dutch surnames - it's a "van de Graaff Levitation Wand", not a "van de Graff Levitation Wand" ...
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Every track is packed with great moments, many of them the work of de Graaff himself.
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Note 16: For example, the Swellendam district was divided in 1785 with the creation of a new district at Graaff-Reinet, nearly six hundred kilometers east of Cape Town.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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His daughter Aletta Sophia and her husband Alewijn Jacobus Burger had moved to Graaff-Reinet, a distance that precluded their return for the auction.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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