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Project Histories [old UMRA supporting data, letters, etc. -
Links broken] Dedication of the Bureau of Mines Morgantown Experiment StationSupplement to the Morgantown Post, May 13, 1955 An oversize page .PDF file
scanned from the newspaper which contains pictures and
decsriptions of the facilities, mission, and staff of the
facility. The "station" has more recently been known as
METC - the Morgantown Energy Technology Center, and
currently as part NETL - the National Energy Technology
Center of the US Department of Energy.
Don Strimbeck, our Secretary, was recently interviewed as part of a US Department of Energy project to trace the history of the National Energy Technology Laboratory. The full document NETL: A Century of Innovation can be found on the webite http://www.netl.doe.gov The entire book may be downloaded as a .PDF file. With regard to Mon Valley history, the story starts with "Chapter One: Pittsburgh — the Center for Coal." On the Upper Mon, there is a section "The Beginnings of Coal-Gasification Research at Morgantown" which can be found on page 153.
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