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Ranger in Your Pocket

Los Alamos Innovations

Los Alamos Innovations

Introduction

The Harvard cyclotron at Los Alamos in 1947

Atomic Science

A Is for Atom

Double-Edged Sword

The "Nuclear Energy" sculpture on the University of Chicago campus.

"Little Boy" Atomic Bomb

"Little Boy" gun-type unit

"Fat Man" Atomic Bomb

Water Boiler Reactor

The water boiler reactor at Los Alamos

High-Speed Photography

Camera work at the Trinity Site in 1945

Computing

The MANIAC I, an early computer at Los Alamos in the 1950s

Radiation

Radiation warning sign

Health Physics

A health physics poster

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We are grateful to the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Crystal Trust, the City of Richland, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Kerr Foundation, the Los Alamos Historical Society, Clay and Dorothy Perkins, the White Sands Missile Range Historical Foundation, James Schoke, William H. Wilcox, Ellen Cherniavsky, William K. Coors, the Institute of Electrical And Electronics Engineers, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and other private donors for their support. These projects were created in partnership with the B Reactor Museum Association, the Department of Energy-Richland, and the Los Alamos Historical Society. Los Alamos Innovations was developed in partnership with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Los Alamos/Northern New Mexico Section and funded by the IEEE Foundation.

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