CORPORATE ARCHIVES EXHIBITS

     As the second in a series of exhibits sponsored by the Corporate Archives to commemorate Sandia's 50th Anniversary, "Putting Weapons to the Test" was displayed from January through July in the Lobby of Building 800 and at the Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union. It will now travel to Sandia California. The exhibit features Sandia's test activities at Salton Sea Test Base, Tonopah Test Range, Coyote Canyon Test Complex, and Kauai Test Facility, as well as support work at the Nevada Test Site. A scrapbook design by Michael Vittitow of Creative Arts displays photographs and artifacts from the Corporate Archives.

     We invite you to stop by and view our latest display, "Spin-offs of Weapons Work." This display may be seen at both the Building 800 lobby and the Credit Union on Juan Tabo. It features three spin-offs from the 1960s - the laminar flow clean room, seismic sensors, and rolamite. The laminar flow clean room is the earliest and one of the most successful of Sandia's technology transfers. The exhibit includes a drawing from inventor Willis Whitfield's laboratory notebook and photographs of the first prototypes. The seismic sensor portion features Sandia's very successful Vietnam sensor work and Tom McConnell's MIDS sensor, the most widely produced sensor system in the world. Rolamite is an invention that excited the press, resulting in a phenomenal amount of news coverage - some of which is shown in this display. We hope you will have an opportunity to view the exhibit in the next couple of months. If you would like more information or have materials to donate to the Corporate Archives, please contact Myra O'Canna at 844-6315.