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At the Enola Gay restoration project, the National Air and Space Museum's Paul E. Garber Facility, Suitland, Maryland, featured Agnew, Ashworth, Ramsey, and Sweeney on the specific technologies required for Project Alberta, c. 1944-1945, including: designing the Little Boy uranium bomb, contents and aerodynamics; development of bomb release mechanism; Bernard O'Keefe's claim to last-minute rewiring of Little Boy; flight qualities of B-29; pilot-bombardier communication the Nagasaki mission; operation of Norden bombsight; comparison of the two bombs' electronic characteristics; mechanics of monitoring devices at Hiroshima. Visual documentation included: the Little Boy bomb casing on display next to the Enola Gay; the bomb bay, cockpit, and weaponeer's cabin of the Enola Gay.
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Record Unit 9531
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Atomic Bomb - Little Boy, 1989-1993
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Accession 17-156
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
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"Little Boy" A-Bomb, 1990-1991
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Accession 07-138
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Folder 1 Contains copies of the National Air and Space Museum, Office of the Director Files which deal with the Enola Gay for the years 1986-1990. Includes correspondence dealing with the ownership of the bomb Little Boy, correspondence with the Atomic Library and Technology Foundation on the subject of the Enola Gay Restoration Fund, Enola Gay Restoration updates, general correspondence dealing with the restoration of the airplane, copies of letters sent to the Secretary's office by the public, and a memo dated November 18, 1987 about the possibility of an exhibit on strategic bombing and the Enola Gay. Note: Many of these are photocopies, and the originals of some of them are in Folder 2.
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Accession 96-140
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Alberta
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Smithsonian Institution Archives

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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The Manhattan Project Videohistory Collection
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Manhattan Project
Dates:
1987-1990
Size:
29 videotapes (Reference copies). 75 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9531
Repository:
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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Reimar Horten No.5 - Side 2 of 2
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1982
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item
Collection ID:
NASM.1999.0065
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

Reimar continues to discuss loan of second engine used in H II, lent by Helmut Hirth (Wolf's brother) but returned, per agreement, in 1937; Reimar on lift distribution [3:44] decided to experiment with waggle wingtip configuration to measure effect on wingtip negative drag/thrust, work done at Lohmar(sp) near, 7 kilometers, from Troisdorf, details ...

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Dennis Manochio Fireworks Collection
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Manochio, Dennis
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ca. 1920s-1940s.
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (2 Boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0533
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Fireworks packaging, labels, wrappers and boxes. Many of the labels contain illustrations and logos with ethnic imagery, often stereotypical, and a variety of other subjects.

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Digitized Content Annamae Barlup Myers Diaries
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1931 - 1967
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Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0345
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Annamae Barlup Myers was born April 7, 1903 in Ohio and spent most of her life on a farm, first, the "home farm" which her parents bought in 1915, then that of her father in law, with a period of about seven years in a small Ohio town and a return to the home farm. Her diaries are a record of life in rual Ohio for more than thirty years. During t...

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Joseph P. E. Morrison Papers
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Morrison, Joseph Paul Eldred
Dates:
1923-1973 and undated
Size:
1.5 cu. ft. (3 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7376
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The largest portion of Morrison's papers consists of professional correspondence written and received between 1923 and 1973. It documents his research interests and the extent of his influence as an adviser and research editor to students and colleagues worldwide in malacological matters. In addition there are small groups of letters, not...

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