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1955. Houston, Texas. The Christmas family volunteers for a 3-day in the nuclear bunker test
Defense tests in the H-bomb age have been designed to prove force of ex. plosives and permanence of buildings. In Houston, Texas, civil defense worke…
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The 1955 swimming pool reactor
At the U.N. Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy which opens in Geneva this August the U.S. will exhibit a full-sized working reactor. Last m…
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Atomic 50s - watching the Nevada blasts from Media Hill
Last week (may 1955 - my annotation), the hundreds of Civil Defense observers who had watched the churning, violent ascent of a fiery atomic cloud in…
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Uranium fever of 1955 - the prospector's kit
The initial outlay for the uranium prospector can vary widely. The ultimate in equipment (image above) begins with a four-wheel drive jeep ($1,685). …
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The 1954 research for the use of radiation in food preservation
Far out on the sagebrush plains of Idaho the Atomic Energy Commission gave, in august 1954, newsmen the first public inspection of one of its most ma…
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The Clifty Creek Power Station - a gigantic 1954 industrial project
More electric power than all New York City used in 1954 was needed for a vast new development to expand America's atomic energy program, was unde…
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1954 - X-RAC - new electric computer analyzes architecture of atomic structures
Just before the photo above was shot three Pennsylvania State University scientists fed a long list of numbers, mathematical formulas and measurement…
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April 1954, the Civil Defense Administration released color photos of the H-Bomb test
Following the color movie of the "Operation Ivy" H-bomb test, April 19th, 1954, the Civil Defense Administration released color still phot…
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The Bevatron particle accelerator (1954)
At the University of California the biggest machine ever built for nuclear research has just begun to tear atoms apart with greater energy than any a…
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The radiation suit Homer Moulthrop designed in 1954 for AEC-General Electric Hanford
Most of the work in atomic plants is done by machines so that men will not be exposed to deadly radiation. But to do certain delicate repair jobs in …
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The O-man, 1953's world strongest remote controlled mechanical arm
To help atomic engineers to reach into dangerously radiated chambers to assemble "hot" engine parts, The General Electric Company created t…
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The 1953 atomic farm at Brookhaven, Long Island
Though farmers have plowed their fields in many peculiar patterns, few designs have been as strange as that cut on Long Island in the spring of 1953 …
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The glowing corn from 1951
This is a bit on the odd side of agriculture. A strange new kind of corn which glows with a cold blue fluorescence under ultraviolet light it is grow…
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Atom bombs over Nevada. The Frenchman Flat tests
In 1951 a couple of atom bomb tests in the Frenchman Flat of the Nevada desert caught the public's attention.This amazing photograph shows for th…
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Ford radioactive materials research lab at River Rouge
The 50s and 60s were called the atom age. The power of atom was seen as the future, and if you ask me we should continue our pursuit for atom energy,…
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