Vacuum fuze gas analysis apparatus. 



Carbon de terminator. 



Metallograph. Vacuum metal-deposition apparatus. 



Research apparatus used in A^P Lab-1955. 



In other words, that was an unwritten agreement. 

 That's right. 



When you left the Navy, did you return to the University of Michigan? 



Well, not quite. I had agreed with Dr. Thompson that when I was released I 

 would go out to Inyokern, California, for a year as a division director to help 

 them get started. They had my name on a house out there, and 1 was all packed 

 and set to leave. I was going to leave on a Monday and had my car loaded, but 

 before I left I received word that I was being given a temporary job in Silver 

 Spring, Maryland, and would be transferred to Inyokern later. So I was out at 

 Silver Spring and had planned to leave in 3 days for Inyokern when I got a 

 telephone call stating that the Chief of Ordnance wanted to see me. I hurried 

 down there, and he said, "We'd like to have you go out to Bikini as Technical 

 Director." I said, "Look, I've got a job at Inyokern and I'm leaving next 



