Tower built to test the atom bomb containment vessel

1945

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Tower built to test the atom bomb containment vessel
  • Title
  • Tower built to test the atom bomb containment vessel
  • Creator
  • Eichleay Engineering Corporation
  • Date
  • 1945
  • Identifier
  • 20160223-hpichswp-0031
  • Source Identifier
  • MSS960_B007_F006_I004
  • Description
  • A view of the steel tower designed to suspend Jumbo, a containment vessel designed for the atomic bomb, in mid-air during a test of the atomic bomb. The Eichleay Corporation was contracted by the U.S. government to transport the vessel to the Trinity site as part of the Manhattan Project.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Eichleay Engineering Corporation.
    Manhattan Project (Organization)
    Atom bomb.
  • Source
  • Eichleay Company Records and Photographs, 1889-1989, MSS 960, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Eichleay Engineering Corporation Records and Photographs
  • Rights Information
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