Water Boiler Reactor [1]
Date:
Friday, July 14, 2017
By harnessing uranium in its liquid form, the Water Boiler reactor helped scientists learn how to best build the atomic bomb.
Electronics and Detonators [2]
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.
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Assembly of the Gadget device.
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Gadget being hoisted
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Fat man.
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A drop test "pumpkin" bomb. Photo courtesy of Scott Muselin.
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Fat Man Assembly - X Unit visible on right of sphere attached to "B" plate on the forward aluminum cone
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Trinity test shot .016 seconds
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Trinity test shot .053 seconds
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Trinity test shot .1 seconds
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Trinity test shot 20 seconds
High-Speed Photography [12]
Date:
Monday, July 10, 2017
Innovations in high-speed photography at Los Alamos helped develop photography into its modern-day form.
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800 West Fastax Sled at Trinity Site
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Camera installations, photo shelter (10,000 N of Ground Zero at Trinity Site)
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Inside photo shelter at Point P at Trinity Site
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Raising machine gun turret to top of camera shelter, 10,000 yds. N of Ground Zero at Trinity
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Showing Optics Group headquarters at MacDonald ranch, air-conditioned trailer at left was used for photographic processing
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Turret for following camera
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Aero camera at distant station - Campana Hill
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Camera drum with oscilloscopes attached
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Ernest Wallis, taking pictures with contax camera equipped with telephoto lens
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Trinity Test Fireball at 0.062 seconds.
Photo Courtesy of the Federal government of the United States (atomicarchive.com) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The famous photo of the Trinity test, taken by Jack Aeby.
