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Los Alamos Innovations

Los Alamos Innovations

Electronics and Detonators

Date: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Manhattan Project scientists and engineers in Los Alamos, NM designed and developed a number of innovations in the field of electronics.

Gallery

  • Gadget Assembly

    Assembly of the Gadget device.

  • Gadget being hoisted

    Gadget being hoisted

  • Fat man.

    Fat man.

  • A drop test "pumpkin" bomb. Photo courtesy of Scott Muselin.

    A drop test "pumpkin" bomb. Photo courtesy of Scott Muselin.

  • Fat Man Assembly - X Unit visible on right of sphere attached to "B" plate on the forward aluminum cone

    Fat Man Assembly - X Unit visible on right of sphere attached to "B" plate on the forward aluminum cone

  • Trinity test shot .016 seconds

    Trinity test shot .016 seconds

  • Trinity test shot .053 seconds

    Trinity test shot .053 seconds

  • Trinity test shot .1 seconds

    Trinity test shot .1 seconds

  • Trinity test shot 20 seconds

    Trinity test shot 20 seconds

High-Speed Photography

Date: 
Monday, July 10, 2017
Innovations in high-speed photography at Los Alamos helped develop photography into its modern-day form.

Gallery

  • 800 West Fastax Sled at Trinity Site

    800 West Fastax Sled at Trinity Site

  • Camera installations, photo shelter (10,000 N of Ground Zero at Trinity Site)

    Camera installations, photo shelter (10,000 N of Ground Zero at Trinity Site)

  • Inside photo shelter at Point P at Trinity Site

    Inside photo shelter at Point P at Trinity Site

  • Raising machine gun turret to top of camera shelter, 10,000 yds. N of Ground Zero at Trinity

    Raising machine gun turret to top of camera shelter, 10,000 yds. N of Ground Zero at Trinity

  • Showing Optics Group headquarters at MacDonald ranch, air-conditioned trailer at left was used for photographic processing

    Showing Optics Group headquarters at MacDonald ranch, air-conditioned trailer at left was used for photographic processing

  • Turret for following camera

    Turret for following camera

  • Aero camera at distant station - Campana Hill

    Aero camera at distant station - Campana Hill

  • Camera drum with oscilloscopes attached

    Camera drum with oscilloscopes attached

  • Ernest Wallis, taking pictures with contax camera equipped with telephoto lens

    Ernest Wallis, taking pictures with contax camera equipped with telephoto lens

  • Trinity Test Fireball at 0.062 seconds

    Trinity Test Fireball at 0.062 seconds.

    Photo Courtesy of the Federal government of the United States (atomicarchive.com) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

  • The famous photo of the Trinity test, taken by Jack Aeby.

    The famous photo of the Trinity test, taken by Jack Aeby.