World-changing Technologies Start Like This

March 17th, 2008

Filed under: Technology, Folly

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Censored early drawing of an atomic weapon based on the famous U.S Los Alamos “Fat Man” device which was dropped on Nagasaki and detonated in the Trinity test. The diagram is from a report completed by William G. Penney on 1 July 1947.

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