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Laboratory staff working with radioactive material

  • 1959-Dec-10
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Color photograph of Eleanor Vadala, Chemist, and C.A. Cassola, Division Superintendent, working with a barrel of radioactive material at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. Ms. Vadala appears to be holding an analytical instrument used to measure the radioactivity of the substance. At the Laboratory, gamma radiation was commonly used to alter the physical properties of textile fibers and polymers.

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  • 8 in. H x 10 in. W
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 1

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United States. Navy, and Naval Air Engineering Center (U.S.). “Laboratory Staff Working with Radioactive Material,” December 10, 1959. Photographs from the Papers of J. Hartley Bowen, Box 1. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/8p58pc96t.

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