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"Superconductivity is a magic potion, an elixir to rejuvenate old accelerators and open new vistas for the future."
Former Fermilab Director Robert Wilson,
Physics Today, October 1977.

Workers in 1980 assembled the �Fermilab Kit� for making superconducting wire: a copper can filled with 2,100 niobium-titanium rods in hexagonal copper tubes, capped with a tail piece and a nose piece.