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| elevation_m=| elevation_ft=961}}Bruceton is an unincorporated suburb of Pittsburgh within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.GNIS, 1170426, Bruceton, Pennsylvania, 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 is the home of the Experimental Mine of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, which originally opened in 1910.WEB, About NETL,www.netl.doe.gov/about/history.html, 2008-11-15, December 20, 2008,www.netl.doe.gov/about/history.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20081220135839www.netl.doe.gov/about/history.html,">web.archive.org/web/20081220135839www.netl.doe.gov/about/history.html, dead, JOURNAL, Clements, M.E., 1927, Uncle Sam’s Toy Coal Mine, Popular Science, July, 36,www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=EysDAAAAMBAJ&pg=36&query=Bruceton, 2010-03-07,www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=EysDAAAAMBAJ&pg=36&query=Bruceton," title="web.archive.org/web/20110604155455www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=EysDAAAAMBAJ&pg=36&query=Bruceton,">web.archive.org/web/20110604155455www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=EysDAAAAMBAJ&pg=36&query=Bruceton, 2011-06-04, dead, 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|date=January 2023}}

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.WEB,osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/war/narrative/page28.html, The Scientific War Work of Linus C. Pauling - Special Collections & Archives Research Center - Oregon State University, BOOK, Lillian Hoddeson, Paul W. Henriksen, Roger A. Meade, Catherine L. Westfall, Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945,books.google.com/books?id=KoTve97yYB8C&pg=PA166, 12 February 2004, Cambridge University Press, 978-0-521-54117-6, 166–, BOOK, Peter Galison, Bruce William Hevly, Big Science: The Growth of Large-scale Research,books.google.com/books?id=zGmsRqIILx8C&pg=PA270, 1992, Stanford University Press, 978-0-8047-1879-0, 270–,

See also

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

References

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