Wordless Wednesday: The Manhattan Project Edition
The Six-Year-Old studies a sign on the University of Chicago campus. (Photo: Shala Howell)
Close-up of the sign she’s reading:
(Photo: Shala Howell)
In case you can’t read the small print, the sign reads “Site of the First Self-sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction December 2, 1942.” I hadn’t realized that Enrico Fermi did his work for the Manhattan Project under the University of Chicago campus. Pretty nifty thing to stumble across on a Sunday afternoon walk, isn’t it?
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One Response to “Wordless Wednesday: The Manhattan Project Edition”
Yeah, they split the first atoms underneath Chicago! Then they had to move to the desert in New Mexico. Good call when they found out what it could really do!
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