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Paul H. Bowerman oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Paul Bowerman conducted by Frances Harelik on March 05, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview Bowerman provides insight into life in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1954 to 1976. Bowerman discusses weather, wildlife, and interesting recreational sites in Nevada.
Archival Collection
Universal Warning Sign: Yucca Mountain Scrapbook, 2002-2003
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Archival Collection
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A scrapbook for "Universal Warning Sign: Yucca Mountain," an international competition to create a warning sign for the proposed nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Included in the scrapbook are exhibition photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and a letter. Publications featured include "Neon: Artcetera From the Nevada Arts Council," "The Wall Street Journal," "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: The Magazine of Global Security News and Analysis," "U.S. News & World Report," "Artweek," "Sette," "Surface," "Wallpaper," "Waste News: The News Source for Businesses that Generate and Manage Waste," and "The Village Voice."
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Shockley, William
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Shockley was the manager of a research group that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists invented the point-contact transistor in 1947 and were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Brochure for American Nevada Company, circa 2005
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Archival Collection
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The brochure describes the history of American Nevada Company, a real estate development firm. The company is based in Henderson, Nevada, and specializes in master planned communities and commercial real estate development.
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Toni Carter oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Toni Carter conducted by Irene Rostine on March 06, 1992 for the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. Carter discusses working as a researcher for Basic Magnesium Inc. in Henderson, Nevada during World War II. Carter then talks about being laid off after the war, but returning to work for the plant when management changed. Carter describes her research in working to create combustible formulas for incendiary bombs. Carter also talks briefly about working conditions for researchers.
Archival Collection
Aerospace Medical Association
Bio taken from wiki page: "The Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) is the largest professional organization in the fields of aviation, space, and environmental medicine. The AsMA membership includes aerospace and hyperbaric medical specialists, scientists, flight nurses, physiologists, and researchers from all over the world."
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Harry Mortenson oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Harry Mortenson conducted by Claytee D. White on April 08, 2014, April 22, 2014, and May 06, 2014 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In the first interview, Mortenson discusses his personal background, working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and arriving to Nevada to work as a nuclear physicist at the Nevada Test Site. Mortenson describes his work and recalls anecdotes from his employment. He then talks about his company, Sigma Scientific, and explains the different projects where he worked as a consultant. In the second interview, Mortenson discusses the methods of transportation used to arrive to the Nevada Test Site, his involvement with different organizations, and his tenure in the Nevada State Legislature. In the final interview, Mortenson discusses the device he built to take photographs of the nuclear reactor cores at Las Alamos National Laboratory, and explains how that device worked.
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