National Historic Landmark- Abo

National Historical Landmark-Abo

Abo is the site of a large, unexcavated Pueblo occupied from late prehistoric times into the historic era.

Abo typifies the period in which acculturation began in the American Southwest. A large mission church of red sandstone ...

National Historic Landmark-Pupin Physics Laboratory

National Historical Landmark- Pupin Physics Laboratory, Columbia University

Initial experiments on the nuclear fission of uranium were conducted here by Enrico Fermi. The uranium atom was split here on January 25, 1939, ten days after the world's first atom-splitting in Copenhagen, ...

National Historic Landmark-Bell Telephone Laboratory

National Historic Landmark- Bell Telephone Laboratories

The home (1898-1966) of America's largest industrial research laboratory, responsible for numerous contributions to pure science as well as pioneering work in telecommunications technology.

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National Historic Landmark- X-10 Graphite Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

National Historic Landmark- X-10 Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

When it went into operation on November 4, 1943, this was the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor and the first to produce significant amounts of heat energy and measurable amounts of plutonium; ...

National Historic Landmark-George Peabody College for Teachers

National Historical Landmark- George Peabody College for Teachers

The University of Nashville was the first college to receive aid from the Peabody Fund, which had been established in 1867 by philanthropist George Peabody to help rebuild the South's educational system. ...