Note: This is Saturdays events/ Found condenser nearly ready. Crew dead tired. By noon everything seemed under control. Went to Comb Engr (Wlasj and Weidner) Chattanooga. Saw some very fine machinery and some interesting boilers. Home about 10 PM.
This blog features the personal diaries of John Hamilton Ruckman (1888-1966). Ruckman was the son of Gen. John W. Ruckman and a graduate of M.I.T. and the University of California. He was also an Army captain in World War I and a colonal in World War II. These entries cover the period Ruckman served as chief engineer for the Fercleve Corporation, Oak Ridge, TN (the Manhattan Project).