Chronology 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. |