Help please! Any remnants of the Atomic Age on ISU's campus?

[Kagavi]

The following document is a great read for those really interested in ISU's link to the atomic age. I think I was first put onto this by the "Urban Exploring" megathread when it first started years ago. This link is to a copy of CS Payne's thesis on The Ames Project.

http://cph.uiowa.edu/iowafwp/documents/CS_Payne_PhD_Thesis.pdf

This is a very useful document and really captures the era.

I am so appreciative by how helpful many of you have been in this thread. I have been given a ton of leads to investigate and can't wait to get my project started.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

 

[Wesley]

Maybe you can make a T shirt about this history. Just make sure it irradiates. I enjoyed reeading about the project history also.

 

[aauummm]

I graduated in 2006, but I will say the process of becoming a licensee for ISU involved quite a bit of preparation. My business plan is essentially to go into debt up to my eyeballs making awesome stuff. Ha. (This thread has more info if you are interested.)

Here's a link to a memorial plaque on campus titled "Pure Uranium" concerning ISU activities in 1942:
Pure Uranium and http://www.fpm.iastate.edu/maps/

I'm sure that there are more plaques and markers on campus concerning that whole era.

 

[Cycsk]

Here's a link to a memorial plaque on campus titled "Pure Uranium" concerning ISU activities in 1942:
Pure Uranium and ISU Online Campus Map

I'm sure that there are more plaques and markers on campus concerning that whole era.

Wow! And it was all being driven around town in open pick-up trucks with no tailgate!


"More than 2,000,000 pounds of uranium were produced at Iowa State for the secret Manhattan Project"

 

[Kagavi]

Here's a link to a memorial plaque on campus titled "Pure Uranium" concerning ISU activities in 1942:
Pure Uranium and ISU Online Campus Map

I'm sure that there are more plaques and markers on campus concerning that whole era.

This link is pretty darn useful! Thanks for this.

Maybe you can make a T shirt about this history. Just make sure it irradiates. I enjoyed reeading about the project history also.

Shhhh....

 

[aauummm]

Wow! And it was all being driven around town in open pick-up trucks with no tailgate!


"More than 2,000,000 pounds of uranium were produced at Iowa State for the secret Manhattan Project"

Good one!! :biglaugh::biglaugh:

 

[aauummm]

This link is pretty darn useful! Thanks for this.



Shhhh....

Cool pictures: Photo Gallery - Ames Laboratory - Former Worker Medical Screening Program (FWP) - The College of Public Health - The University of Iowa