During his time at the open day he confuses a band of Army Cadets by coughing and causing them to respond by standing in unusual ceremonial stances, gets in other people's way, messes up a stamp album, distracts and frightens a calligrapher, and gets paper stuck to his body after using a Van de Graaff generator.
The Van de Graaff generator was developed, starting in 1929, by physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff at Princeton University with help from colleague Nicholas Burke.
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A pelletron is a type of electrostatic particle accelerator similar to a Van de Graaff generator.
The facility is currently built around a 5MV Singletron, a particle accelerator similar to a Van de Graaff.