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Smithsonian Institution Archives
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- The Manhattan Project Videohistory Collection / Alberta / Sessions / At the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., featured Agnew, Ashworth, Ramsey, and Sweeney on their assignments in Project Alberta, c. 1944-1945, including: designing the Fat Man plutonium bomb, contents and aerodynamics; definition of weaponeer's role and mechanics of bomb; William S. Parsons' contributions to Manhattan Project; reasons for interviewees' participation in Manhattan Project; flight training for the 509th Composite Group; preparation of Tinian Island as flight base ("Project Silverplate"); life on Tinian with conventional B-29 bomber crews; comparison of Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions; photography of atomic explosions; disposal of facilities at Tinian after Nagasaki explosion; reaction to use of the bombs. Visual documentation included: the Fat Man bomb casing on display at the Museum.
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Four participants from "Project Alberta" convened for Sessions Seventeen and Eighteen. This phase of the Manhattan Project dealt with the conversion of the Trinity test device into the practical weapons systems that were used twice on Japan. The interviewees were among those who designed the bombs to fit the B-29, wired them with redundant...
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Manhattan Project
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1987-1990
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29 videotapes (Reference copies). 75 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...
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Interviewees in this collection worked on the physics of atomic bomb design at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. The sessions were taped at the studios of Audvid Film and Tape Production, in Boston, Massachusetts. Four physicists who played important roles in the "Trinity" atomic bomb test at Alamogordo, New Mexico, were...
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Duncan P. Schiedt Photograph Collection
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Schiedt, Duncan P., 1921-2014
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1900-2012, undated
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65 Cubic feet (124 boxes)
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- NMAH.AC.1323
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Duncan Schiedt (1921-2014) was a jazz scholar, writer, photographer, film maker, researcher and pianist. He authored four books relating to jazz history. Many of his photographs and articles were featured in magazines, periodicals and documentaries. Schiedt also collected the work of other photographers on the subject of jazz. The collection primarily consists of photographs created by or collected by Mr. Schiedt.