Neutronic Reactor Patent 2 708 656 Application Filed December 19 1944 Patented May 17 1955

by Enrico Fermi Leo Szilard

$45,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Washington, DC : United States Patent Office, 1955; 1957. First edition, incredibly rare, of this “historic patent 2,708,656 , covering the first nuclear reactor” New York Times, May 19, 1955 . “No published reference article behind the present Patent exists. Some partial results may be found in several papers of Fermi , but here very many technical data and some information of historic interest

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