The Diamond Makers |
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| In the fall of 1951 General Electric assembled a team of scientists
charged with the task of transforming carbon into diamond. Left to
right are Drs. Francis P. Bundy, Herbert M. Strong, H. Tracy Hall and
Robert Wentorf. Anthony Nerad was the project manager and J.E.
Cheney was an assistant to Drs. Strong and Bundy. Also assisting the
physicists was Hal Bovenkerk (not shown)
The object in the center of the photograph is a model of the three-story tall Birdsboro double-acting press. The cylindrical objects are wooden models of Tracy Hall's "belt" apparatus which was used to make the first diamond. The belt apparatus is still being used today by GE and others to make industrial diamonds. |
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