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Category : Government reports announcements & index
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Government Reports Annual Index
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Category : Government reports announcements & index
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Category : Government reports announcements & index
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Operation Teapot, Nevada Test Site, February--May 1955
Author: Guy Corfield
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Category : Nuclear explosions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Nuclear explosions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Operation Teapot, Nevada Test Site, February--May 1955
Author: Philip A. Randall
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Operation Teapot, Nevada Test Site, February--May 1955
Author: Ebe R. Shaw
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Category : Nuclear explosions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Nuclear explosions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Operation Teapot, Nevada Test Site, February--May 1955
Author: Wendell O. Gould
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Category : Nuclear explosions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Nuclear explosions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Operation Teapot, Nevada Test Site, February-May 1955, Project 39.3
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Category : Detonation waves
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The purpose of Project 39.3 was to measure the thermal flux per unit area at a series of specified distances from a nuclear detonation. The instrumentation chosen was an Eppley thermopile indicating on a strip-chart paper recorder. Two stations failed to yield results because of power failures and blast damage. Results were obtained at 5500, 6800, 10,500 ft. These results follow the inverse-square-law fall-off, within the limits of reasonable experimental error.
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Category : Detonation waves
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The purpose of Project 39.3 was to measure the thermal flux per unit area at a series of specified distances from a nuclear detonation. The instrumentation chosen was an Eppley thermopile indicating on a strip-chart paper recorder. Two stations failed to yield results because of power failures and blast damage. Results were obtained at 5500, 6800, 10,500 ft. These results follow the inverse-square-law fall-off, within the limits of reasonable experimental error.
Operation Teapot, Nevada Test Site, February--May 1955
Author: B. J. O'Keefe
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Category : Heat flux
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Heat flux
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Operation Teapot, Nevada Test Site, February--May 1955
Author: Walton C. Clark
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Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Operation Teapot, Nevada Test Site, February--May 1955
Author: Charles T. Rainey
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Category : Civil defense drills
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Civil defense drills
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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American Technological Sublime
Author: David E. Nye
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262640343
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here Nye examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" (a term coined by Perry Miller) as a key to the nation's history, using as examples the natural sites, architectural forms, and technological achievements that ordinary people have valued intensely. Technology has long played a central role in the formation of Americans' sense of selfhood. From the first canal systems through the moon landing, Americans have, for better or worse, derived unity from the common feeling of awe inspired by large-scale applications of technological prowess. American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here Nye examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" (a term coined by Perry Miller) as a key to the nation's history, using as examples the natural sites, architectural forms, and technological achievements that ordinary people have valued intensely. American Technological Sublime is a study of the politics of perception in industrial society. Arranged chronologically, it suggests that the sublime itself has a history - that sublime experiences are emotional configurations that emerge from new social and technological conditions, and that each new configuration to some extent undermines and displaces the older versions. After giving a short history of the sublime as an aesthetic category, Nye describes the reemergence and democratization of the concept in the early nineteenth century as an expression of the American sense of specialness. What has filled the American public with wonder, awe, even terror? David Nye selects the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the Erie Canal, the first transcontinental railroad, Eads Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, the major international expositions, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909, the Empire State Building, and Boulder Dam. He then looks at the atom bomb tests and the Apollo mission as examples of the increasing ambivalence of the technological sublime in the postwar world. The festivities surrounding the rededication of the Statue of Liberty in 1986 become a touchstone reflecting the transformation of the American experience of the sublime over two centuries. Nye concludes with a vision of the modern-day "consumer sublime" as manifested in the fantasy world of Las Vegas.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262640343
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here Nye examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" (a term coined by Perry Miller) as a key to the nation's history, using as examples the natural sites, architectural forms, and technological achievements that ordinary people have valued intensely. Technology has long played a central role in the formation of Americans' sense of selfhood. From the first canal systems through the moon landing, Americans have, for better or worse, derived unity from the common feeling of awe inspired by large-scale applications of technological prowess. American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here Nye examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" (a term coined by Perry Miller) as a key to the nation's history, using as examples the natural sites, architectural forms, and technological achievements that ordinary people have valued intensely. American Technological Sublime is a study of the politics of perception in industrial society. Arranged chronologically, it suggests that the sublime itself has a history - that sublime experiences are emotional configurations that emerge from new social and technological conditions, and that each new configuration to some extent undermines and displaces the older versions. After giving a short history of the sublime as an aesthetic category, Nye describes the reemergence and democratization of the concept in the early nineteenth century as an expression of the American sense of specialness. What has filled the American public with wonder, awe, even terror? David Nye selects the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the Erie Canal, the first transcontinental railroad, Eads Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, the major international expositions, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909, the Empire State Building, and Boulder Dam. He then looks at the atom bomb tests and the Apollo mission as examples of the increasing ambivalence of the technological sublime in the postwar world. The festivities surrounding the rededication of the Statue of Liberty in 1986 become a touchstone reflecting the transformation of the American experience of the sublime over two centuries. Nye concludes with a vision of the modern-day "consumer sublime" as manifested in the fantasy world of Las Vegas.