1962 – The famous “scanners”: highly skilled female technicians who examined the images produced by bubble chambers, the detectors of the day.
1965 – This cryostat contains the first superconducting magnet used at CERN, on an experiment at the Synchrocyclotron, CERN's first accelerator.
1973 – A jolly procession to “celebrate” the shutdown of the Synchrocyclotron, CERN’s first accelerator, for renovation. 
1973 – When you don't have oil, you have a sense of humour: an improvised shuttle at the time of the first oil crisis.
1972 – Theorists Mary K. Gaillard and Murray Gell-Mann in front of the indomitable blackboard.
1974 – The pre-injector of CERN’s first linear accelerator, Linac1, a sort of suspended electronic cage.
