Lockheed unit to produce condition of 'nothingness
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph article dated March 13, 1961 partially reads, "A vacuum chamber capable of producing 'nothingness' - more deadly, hotter, and colder than anything man has ever known - is being built in isolated Rye Canyon in the Castaic area. The 10-foot wide, 10-foot high chamber designed by Lockheed Aircraft Corporations California Division of Burbank, will reduce air pressure to one-billionth of what it is at sea level... It will provide simulated altitudes of 475 miles, heat comparable to the sun in space conditions and temperature 420 degrees below zero, said William Bonnell, Lockheed staff engineer who is in charge of the Altitude Environment Facility being built in the canyon north of Highway 99."
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
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