The Manhattan Project: An Engineering and Industrial History Beyond the Science
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Summary
The Manhattan Project was far more than a scientific endeavor—it was an unprecedented industrial and engineering effort. Building the atomic bombs required enormous factory complexes, hundreds of millions of dollars in never-before-constructed equipment, and the invention of new machines, analytical techniques, and manufacturing methods for novel substances that had never been produced in quantity before.
Key quotes
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Enormous factory complexes were built using hundreds of millions of dollars worth of never-before-constructed equipment.
Scores of new machines, analytical techniques, and methods of working with completely novel substances had to be invented.
Materials which had never been produced at all, or only produced in tiny amounts, suddenly had to be manufactured in vast quantities.
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