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Calutron Girls photographed by Ed Westcott at their calutron control panels at Y-12. The Calutron Girls were a group of young women—mostly high school graduates—who had joined the Manhattan Project at the Y-12 National Security Complex located at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, from 1943 to 1945.
The Calutron Girls were young women who monitored calutron control panels at Y-12. Gladys Owens, seated in the foreground, was unaware of what she had been involved in. [ 154 ] Responsibility for the design and construction of the electromagnetic separation plant, which came to be called Y-12 , was assigned to Stone & Webster in June 1942.
The 1,000-troy-ounce (31 kg) silver bars were taken under guard to the Defense Plant Corporation in Carteret, New Jersey, where they were cast into cylindrical billets, and then to Phelps Dodge in Bayway, New Jersey, where they were extruded into strips 0.625 inches (15.9 mm) thick, 3 inches (7.6 cm) wide and 40 feet (12 m) long.
Every Beatles fan has the iconography of this first American visit in their head: the plane at JFK, the quippy press conferences, the screaming girls swarming the car, the Ed Sullivan Show, the D ...
Kentucky resident Opal Talbott returned to Oak Ridge to celebrate her 101st birthday. She helped make the first atomic bomb.
Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1921 or 1922 – January 31, 2015) [1] [2] [3] was an American actress, singer and model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency, [4] known for her "smoky voice" [5] and being "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s". [6]
Image credits: GerbilFeces #11. Did this by accident the other day. Outside having a smoke and made eye contact with a girl who lives in my apartment block. Start chatting about normal stuff.
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