A camera that was used in the Manhattan Project (Atomic Bomb Drop on Nagasaki)

"Douglas Winnek also was quite prolific in patented camera designs, imaging techniques and lens manufacturing methods (figure 16 through 18). Called "Trivision", his inventions were widely publicized including his approach to auto stereoscopic X-ray photography."
 
Interesting, but SCIENCE NEWS actually spell like that or did something get translated funny?

- techic
- lentieulations

What was the date??
 
Vannevar Bush has a box with materials on Douglas Winnek.

Collection Summary
Title: Papers of Vannevar Bush
Span Dates: 1901-1974
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1932-1955)
ID No.: MSS14498
Creator: Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974
Extent: 55,000 items; 174 containers; 69.6 linear feet
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Physicist, engineer, government official, and science administrator. The collection relates primarily to Vannevar
Bush's role as coordinator of the scientific community for defense efforts during and after World War II when he served as
chairman of the National Defense Research Committee and director of its successor, the Office of Scientific Research and
Development, where he supervised the Manhattan Project and other programs.
 
oftheherd said:
Well, I think you are trying to cover up something.
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Well, you may be on to something... but I'm not at liberty to say any more... except that Mr. Winnick may not have been acting alone... it may have been a conspiracy... with a person with distinctively (ahem) European origins.

Oh no, perhaps I've said too much.

patent 2,689,502

But don't let anyone know where you heard this!

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You guys are having some fun here!

I just talked with the producer; they may have aired a program last season on a topic that might be similar to the one that I have asked them to look into. She does not believe there is much overlap, but she has to view the aired program to make sure.
 
I have deleted my posting on the same material as above.

It seems that Winnek's full name is Douglas Fredwill Winnek Coffey.
 
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Raid,

You tell little about what this camera weighs, what it is made of etc.

If it is of machined heavy steel it has, most likely, never been in a plane. Then it would be made of aluminium, magnesium - even plywood. Think of these Stratofortresses stressed to it's range limit. How could they 'afford' to carry a camera of cast iron construction? And why? If it is 'very heavy' it is far more likely that some X-ray application. Highly likely.

- No, I think Truman did right about dropping the A-bombs. Indeed, Truman is one of my favourite US presidents. What the current US government is doing in Afganistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, Somalia, Georgia - I could go on, is far worse.
 
Olsen said:
Raid,

You tell little about what this camera weighs, what it is made of etc.

If it is of machined heavy steel it has, most likely, never been in a plane. Then it would be made of aluminium, magnesium - even plywood. Think of these Stratofortresses stressed to it's range limit. How could they 'afford' to carry a camera of cast iron construction? And why? If it is 'very heavy' it is far more likely that some X-ray application. Highly likely.
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Olson,

Two men can carry the camera with its biggest lens. I have never lifted the camera, and it is painted black, so I don't know which metal was used to build it. It weighs less than an average human being.

According to what I have received in one email, the camera was first used in the lab and in later years it was used for reconaissance. It was also mentioned that Winnek trained the Commander on how to use the camera.

It occurs to me that they may have needed a 3D camera, and the Trivision was one of the first 3D cameras.
 
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Latest: I have given the camera and three lenses to the Physics Department at the Univ. of West Florida as a long term loan for use in the labs.
 
I am mentioning this old thread because it includes excellent disvussions, and since this camera has today been discussed with the the Director of the Naval Aviation Museum who thinks that it is a very important part of US history.
 
Latest update on this camera

Latest update on this camera

I have agreed to donate the camera to the Naval Aviation Museum here in Pensacola, Florida. This way, it stays in my hometown, and I feel good about having historians of naval aviation working completing what I have started in documenting the history of this Doglas Winnek 3D camera. There is soon going to be an exhibit at the Museum in which this camera is shown beside a proto-type of the A-bomb that was discovered in Washington DC a couple of years ago.

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I want to give something back to this community. This camera is too valuable from a historic point of view. It may be the only surviving Douglas Winnek 3D camera in existence, and maybe the Museum has the reach and money to get copies of his diary with information on the use of this camera in WWII.
 
Well done Raid. This camera does belong in a museum.
Personally I wouldn't want to use any object associated with so much grief/horror.
 
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