CHICAGO (AP) — It’s 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois.
It’s a gigantic electromagnet and it’s scheduled to end its unlikely journey to its new home outside Chicago today.
Batavia’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will use it to study blazing fast particles.
What’s not blazing fast is the magnet on the last leg of its journey. This week, it’s moved by truck at between 5 and 15 mph.
En route from a laboratory in New York, it was floated down the East Coast into the Gulf of Mexico, then up river.
The used magnet cost $3.5 million to transport.
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