July 3, 1945: Casting of the uranium-235 projectile for the "Little Boy" atomic bomb is completed. https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/little-boy-and-fat-man … @wellerstein
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There was also a site in Pasadena where the casings and the timing device were manufactured.
Yes, Project Camel. I was unable to tell whether they manufactured the casings in-house or contracted them out (and then used them for experiments). They definitely fabricated explosive lenses there.
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Yes, where the tunnel was dug to Cal Tech in the early 1930's. I doubt there is any paperwork saved on it.
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The building had state of the art workshops and access to the best machinists of the era from Mount Wilson, where every telescope was created an original.
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The tunnel to Cal Tech was dug for Einstein in the early 1930s to do developmental work, why it's the birthplace of the bomb.
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Caltech certainly played a role in the project but there are many places that could lay claim to being the "birthplace" of the bomb. It was an endeavor that took place at a lot of different sites ("birth" is not the best metaphor for it).
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Well, I think it obviously was very important to have the best physics mind involved who of course would of been Einstein, I think my statement is correct.
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Not to mention, the concentration of the best physics minds in Pasadena at that time was unparalleled. Einstein talks so much about the importance of the inventive development of inventions.
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But so did Hale, who had assembled the best builders in the World for his telescopes.
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