GRAPHIC:  University of Chicago Magazine
Retrospective
Photography by Stephen Lewellyn, AB'48
 
IMAGE:  This lucite trolley car, designed and built by Enrico Fermi, rotated around the synchrocyclotron, which sat 32 feet below the ground floor of the Ellis Avenue Accelerator Building. Lewellyn photographed the trolley in 1952 because, he says, "I thought it was cute."
 
This lucite trolley car, designed and built by Enrico Fermi, rotated around the synchrocyclotron, which sat 32 feet below the ground floor of the Ellis Avenue Accelerator Building. Lewellyn photographed the trolley in 1952 because, he says, “I thought it was cute.”