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