Recollections from Nearly 30 years in the Engineering Department at Mound Laboratory
MOUND MUSEUM LECTURE SERIES SPOTLIGHTS
Recollections from Nearly 30 years in the Engineering Department at Mound Laboratory
After providing an overview of the missions of the Monsanto Laboratory in Dayton and in Miamisburg, first for the Manhattan Project during World War II, and later the cold war and space race, Dave will recount his responsibilities to install facilities so that the Mound could fulfill its role of making components for nuclear weapons and developing materials for these weapons. In particular, Dave shares his memories of the many Mound employees with whom he interacted during his tenure at Mound. Finally, he describes the changes that he observed at the Mound site over the past 50 years.
David L. Balsmeyer
Dave joined Mound Laboratory in 1965 as a project engineer after graduating from the University of Toledo. He was later transferred by Monsanto to a manufacturing facility in Raleigh, NC for several years. He returned in 1973 to Mound as a safety specialist. For his last 17 years at Mound he was a construction project manager retiring in 1994. His projects involved several of the few buildings that still remain on the former Mound site. Dave is a director on the board of the Mound Science & Energy Museum Association
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