Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)

Print photographs depicting the facilities, machinery, and operations of the Aeronautical Materials Laboratory located at the Naval Air Material Center (later the Naval Air Engineering Center) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This is a small collection of primary and secondary source materials detailing work done at the Naval Air Experimental Station in Philadelphia and later in Johnsville, PA during World War II and the Cold War period. Much it concerns the uses of atomic power and the effects of atomic fallout.