Timeline of particle physics technology

• 1896 - Charles Wilson discovers that energetic particles produce droplet tracks in supersaturated gases
• 1908 - Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford invent the Geiger counter
• 1911 - Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamber
• 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