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词条 Bruceton, Pennsylvania
释义

  1. History

  2. See also

  3. References

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Bruceton is an unincorporated suburb of Pittsburgh within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] It is the home of the Experimental Mine of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, which originally opened in 1910.[2][3] It is also the home of the Pittsburgh Safety and Health Technology Center. The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway connected to the B&O Railroad in Bruceton.

History

For years in the early 1940s the town hosted almost 100 scientists to help develop the Manhattan Project as a laboratory of the National Defense Research Committee including a month-long visit by Linus Pauling.[4][5][6]

See also

  • Bruceton analysis
  • Experimental Mine, U.S. Bureau of Mines
  • George Kistiakowsky
  • National Energy Technology Laboratory
  • RDX
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References

1. ^{{cite gnis|1170426|Bruceton, Pennsylvania}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=About NETL |url=http://www.netl.doe.gov/about/history.html |accessdate=2008-11-15}}
3. ^{{cite journal |last1= Clements |first1= M.E. |year= 1927|title= Uncle Sam's Toy Coal Mine |journal= Popular Science|volume= |issue= July |pages=36 |url= http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=EysDAAAAMBAJ&pg=36&query=Bruceton |doi= }}
4. ^http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/war/narrative/page28.html
5. ^{{cite book|author1=Lillian Hoddeson|author2=Paul W. Henriksen|author3=Roger A. Meade|author4=Catherine L. Westfall|title=Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoTve97yYB8C&pg=PA166|date=12 February 2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-54117-6|pages=166–}}
6. ^{{cite book|author1=Peter Galison|author2=Bruce William Hevly|title=Big Science: The Growth of Large-scale Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGmsRqIILx8C&pg=PA270|year=1992|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-1879-0|pages=270–}}
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2 : Unincorporated communities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania

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