National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
W. A. Gracey worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.
Percy Spencer was an American physicist and inventor. Spencer was born in 1894 in Howland, Maine. He dropped out of grammar school at age 12 to work as a spindle boy in a weaving mill, but in his early years he taught himself about electricity, even setting up a new electrical system at a local […]
Richard Shepard joined the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, working in the K-25 Plant as a member of the Special Engineer Detachment.
T. J. O’Donnell was the Shop Chief at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
