Tabla de Contenidos: “…The 600 MeV Synchrocyclotron (SC): laying the foundation / Brian Allardyce and Giuseppe Fidecaro -- The Proton Synchrotron (PS): at the core of the CERN accelerators / Donald Cundy and Simone Gilardoni -- The Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR): the first Hadron Collider / Christian Fabjan and Kurt Hübner -- The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS): a tale of two lives / Niels Doble, Lau Gatignon, Kurt Hübner and Edmund Wilson -- The CERN antiproton programme: imagination and audacity rewarded / Vinod Chohan and Pierre Darriulat -- The Large Electron Positron collider (LEP): probing the standard model / Thomas Taylor and Daniel Treille -- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC): the energy frontier / Giorgio Brianti and Peter Jenni -- Data handling and communications / Frédéric Hemmer and Pier Giorgio Innocenti -- Knowledge and technology: sharing with society / Cristoforo Benvenuti, Christine Sutton and Horst Wenninger -- Managing the laboratory and large projects / Philippe Lebrun and Thomas Taylor -- R&D for the future / Kurt Hübner, Daniel Schulte and Daniel Treille…”