From Meteorite to Trinite: (1) Using fire and force, a nail was forged using a meteorite (2) Through a process of casting 1943 steel pennies a second nail was formed. These pennies also known as “war pennies” were made of zinc- (3) A third nail was born by re-fusing Trinitite, a glassy residue was
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Two men faced each other for a coin flip on . ...1943. The extreme light of the midday sun beat into Leon's eyes- his comrade a mere mix of blacks and greys. These two men had been cast into the role of "weaponeers" in the theater of war. This coin toss of this particular moment was to decide who would fly the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. "Heads you fly, tails you stay on land". Leon's penny landed tail side up on the dusty ground beneath their feet.
Eclipse: the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other. to make less outstanding or important by comparison; surpass: derived from the ancient Greek noun (ékleipsis), which means “the abandonment”, “the downfall”, or “the darkening of a heavenly body”, which is derived from the verb ἐκλείπω (ekleípō) which means “to abandon”, “to darken”, or “to cease to exist,” a combination of prefix ἐκ- (ek-), from preposition ἐκ (ek), “out,” and of verb λείπω (leípō), “to be absent”. |
(Above: still from The Sun in a Net, directed by Štefan Uher. a 1963 film that became a key film in the development of Slovak and Czechoslovak cinema from the mandated Socialist-Realist filmmaking of the repressive 1950s towards the Czechoslovak/Czech New Wave and socially critical or experimental films of the 1960s marked by a gradual relaxation of communist control.) |
Cast: To throw something forcefully in a specific direction or to cause (light or shadow) to appear on a surface. (1) : to assign the parts of (a dramatic production) to actors (2) to assign (as an actor) to a role or part <was cast in the leading role> |
About: By forging, casting and fusing a range of materials a series of three nails emerged. The choice of materials used to make these nails mines the history of tool making from the pre-historic use of meteorites as tools to the material by-products of such events as the testing of the atomic bomb. |