As February slid into March and April the biologists eased into the rhythm of maintaining and measuring their research populations. Ennui set in. The lab notebook read “routine care of fish” or “routine care of test animals.”58 These lackadaisical accounts masked important developments. On 13 March, the last of the A-lot fry that had been… Lire la suite Chinook
Division of Radiology. Th.e Division of Radiology opened on January 1, 1926, with Miss Minnie Hollingsworth, R. N., as the sole personnel. The equipment at this time consisted of a tilting-table fluoroscope, a mobile X-ray unit which is still being used by the hospital, and an ordinary examining table. The members of the House Staff… Lire la suite School of Medicine
On Christmas Eve, 1942, James C. White was in his office on State Street He was vice president of Tennessee Eastman Co., a subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Co. His job was becoming increasingly difficult because Kodak was shifting entirely to war production work not only making film for the armed forces, but turning out high-precision telescopes, cameras, rangefinders, rocket launchers and bridge pontoons. Tennessee Eastman was rushing production of the new high explosive RDX 50 percent more effective than TNT at its Holston Ordnance Works near Kingsport, Term. « White’s phone rang. It was Lt CoL Leslie R. Groves, the Army Corps of Engineers officer in charge of the Manhattan Project Groves was impressed with Tennessee Eastman’s work on RDX.
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le RDX, un puissant explosif, était fabriqué pour le gouvernement américain à Holston Ordnance Works, sur les sites de Tennessee Eastman. Au plus fort de la production, vers la fin de la guerre, l’usine de munitions produisait un million et demi de livres d’explosifs par jour. De 1943 à mai 1947, Tennessee Eastman était responsable de la gestion du complexe de sécurité nationale Y-12 à Oak Ridge (Tennessee), qui produisait de l’uranium enrichi pour le projet Manhattan.