National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Carroll “Red” Gordon (1919-2008) was a machinist at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Gordon was born in Topeka, Kansas on May 15, 1919.
Hood worked at the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
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 […]
