Interview with William Lipscomb. November 3, 1991. Interview by Thomas Hager for use in "Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling,"
(Simon & Schuster, 1995).
William Lipscomb: We were analyzing smokes according to particle size because we were going to cloud
up Los Angeles so the Japanese couldn't find it to bomb it.
Thomas Hager: Was this the E-19 project that was-
William Lipscomb: I don't know the number. There was a project for covering [unintelligible]. We
don't have to do it now, the smog is already there. But I had to work out a machine
which Linus suggested which was already in the literature, and whether he saw it and
forgot nobody knows. But I built it and it was a machine for analyzing smokes according
to particle size.
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Creator: Thomas Hager, Joseph Koepfli Associated: Linus Pauling Clip ID: hager2.002.6-smoke
