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To: Frank_Discussion
I've always wanted to get a good, full size blueprints of the Saturn V or the V2 to frame and hand on the wall of my den. I originally wanted to frame a set of blueprints of "the gadget" that was set off during the Manhattan Project, but I knew that was too much to ask for.
43 posted on 01/08/2004 3:12:23 PM PST by Orangedog (Remain calm...all is well! [/sarcasm])
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To: Orangedog
good, full size blueprints of the Saturn V or the V2

That would be a lot of paper. You probably don't want the loftsman drawings, since they really are full scale. Ordinary engineerng drawings would be on 32X40 paper or something similar. A full set of drawings of the initial mechanicals would probably fill your den. Then the electrical, and then the logical one-wire, and then the truckloads of amended drawings. You'll need a room 40 X 40 and two clerks on roller skates.

48 posted on 01/08/2004 3:17:00 PM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: Orangedog
set of blueprints of "the gadget" that was set off during the Manhattan Project,

You got the other half of the Jello box?

60 posted on 01/08/2004 3:52:52 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: Orangedog
I originally wanted to frame a set of blueprints of "the gadget" that was set off during the Manhattan Project

Teller supposedly patented the staged Teller-Ulam fusion process. You could look up the patent. No I don't know the number, though I did read it in a book a long time ago.

68 posted on 01/08/2004 4:20:29 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Orangedog
I originally wanted to frame a set of blueprints of "the gadget" that was set off during the Manhattan Project, but I knew that was too much to ask for.

Not really. The stuff you couldn't get would be the process specs, like how to refine the uranium, or forge/machine the plutonium without killing yourself. The drawings of the device itself are no big deal, and are probably available on the internet... if one knew where to look. You might start at www.fas.org. :)

77 posted on 01/08/2004 4:54:15 PM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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