Bruceton, Pennsylvania

Bruceton is an unincorporated suburb of Pittsburgh within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.^[1] It is part of the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan region. Its western half is part of South Park Township and its eastern half is part of Jefferson Hills.

Bruceton, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
Dedication of the Experimental Mine, 1910
Coordinates: 40°18′17″N 79°58′53″W
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Allegheny
Borough/Township	Jefferson Hills, South Park
Elevation	961 ft (293 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)

Bruceton is the home of the Experimental Mine of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, which originally opened in 1910.^[2][3] It is also the home of the Pittsburgh Safety and Health Technology Center. The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway connected to the B&O Railroad in Bruceton. It is 185 miles (or 298 km) northwest of Washington D.C.^{[citation needed]}

History

In the early 1940s, the town hosted almost 100 scientists to help develop the Manhattan Project as a laboratory of the National Defense Research Committee including a month-long visit by Linus Pauling.^[4][5][6]

See also

• Bruceton analysis
• Experimental Mine, U.S. Bureau of Mines
• George Kistiakowsky
• National Energy Technology Laboratory
• RDX

References

1. "Bruceton, Pennsylvania". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. "About NETL". Archived from the original on December 20, 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2008.
3. Clements, M.E. (1927). "Uncle Sam's Toy Coal Mine". Popular Science (July): 36. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved March 7, 2010.
4. "The Scientific War Work of Linus C. Pauling - Special Collections & Archives Research Center - Oregon State University".
5. Lillian Hoddeson; Paul W. Henriksen; Roger A. Meade; Catherine L. Westfall (February 12, 2004). Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945. Cambridge University Press. pp. 166–. ISBN 978-0-521-54117-6.
6. Peter Galison; Bruce William Hevly (1992). Big Science: The Growth of Large-scale Research. Stanford University Press. pp. 270–. ISBN 978-0-8047-1879-0.