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Bruceton is an unincorporated suburb of Pittsburgh within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] Its western half is part of South Park Township, while its eastern half is part of Jefferson Hills.
Bruceton, Pennsylvania | |
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Unincorporated community | |
 Dedication of the Experimental Mine, 1910 | |
| Coordinates: 40°18′17″N 79°58′53″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Allegheny County |
| Borough/Township | Jefferson Hills, South Park |
| Elevation | 961 ft (293 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
It is the home of the Experimental Mine of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, which originally opened in 1910.[2][3] It is also the home of the Pittsburgh Safety and Health Technology Center. The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway connected to the B&O Railroad in Bruceton.It is 185 mi (or 298 km) northwest of Washington D.C.[4]
History
For years in the early 1940s the town hosted almost 100 scientists to help develop the Manhattan Project as a laboratory of the National Defense Research Committee including a month-long visit by Linus Pauling.[5][6][7]
See also
- Bruceton analysis
- Experimental Mine, U.S. Bureau of Mines
- George Kistiakowsky
- National Energy Technology Laboratory
- RDX
References
- "Bruceton, Pennsylvania". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
- "About NETL". Retrieved 2008-11-15.
- Clements, M.E. (1927). "Uncle Sam's Toy Coal Mine". Popular Science (July): 36. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
- "Bruceton Destination Guide (Pennsylvania, United States) - Trip-Suggest". trip-suggest.com. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- "The Scientific War Work of Linus C. Pauling - Special Collections & Archives Research Center - Oregon State University".
- Lillian Hoddeson; Paul W. Henriksen; Roger A. Meade; Catherine L. Westfall (12 February 2004). Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945. Cambridge University Press. pp. 166–. ISBN 978-0-521-54117-6.
- Peter Galison; Bruce William Hevly (1992). Big Science: The Growth of Large-scale Research. Stanford University Press. pp. 270–. ISBN 978-0-8047-1879-0.
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