Copied from the Independent Star News, Pasadena, California dated Sunday, August 16, 1959
Blast Kills Top Scientist
Burlington, Mass -- UPI -- A top research scientist was killed Thursday night when liquid nitrogen, cooled to 350 degrees below zero in a secret project, exploded from a sausage shaped tank.
The body of the scientist, Dr. James Peter Hunsaker, 44, of Milton, was frozen by the blast.
Foreman Leo A. Carr, 46, of Reading was critically injured while another man, David J. Hogbon, 32, of Holbrook suffered minor injuries.
Hunsaker, employed by Arthur D. Little Co. of Cambridge, a research firm, was working on a top secret rocket fuel tank when the blast occurred at the Tech-Weld Corp. plant during tests.
Hunsaker, son of internationally-known aeronautical engineer Jerome Hunsaker who designed the lighter-than-air ship "Shenandoah," leaves a wife and three children as well as his twin brother, Jerome.
Blast Kills Top Scientist
Burlington, Mass -- UPI -- A top research scientist was killed Thursday night when liquid nitrogen, cooled to 350 degrees below zero in a secret project, exploded from a sausage shaped tank.
The body of the scientist, Dr. James Peter Hunsaker, 44, of Milton, was frozen by the blast.
Foreman Leo A. Carr, 46, of Reading was critically injured while another man, David J. Hogbon, 32, of Holbrook suffered minor injuries.
Hunsaker, employed by Arthur D. Little Co. of Cambridge, a research firm, was working on a top secret rocket fuel tank when the blast occurred at the Tech-Weld Corp. plant during tests.
Hunsaker, son of internationally-known aeronautical engineer Jerome Hunsaker who designed the lighter-than-air ship "Shenandoah," leaves a wife and three children as well as his twin brother, Jerome.
Copied from the Independent Star News, Pasadena, California dated Sunday, August 16, 1959
Blast Kills Top Scientist
Burlington, Mass -- UPI -- A top research scientist was killed Thursday night when liquid nitrogen, cooled to 350 degrees below zero in a secret project, exploded from a sausage shaped tank.
The body of the scientist, Dr. James Peter Hunsaker, 44, of Milton, was frozen by the blast.
Foreman Leo A. Carr, 46, of Reading was critically injured while another man, David J. Hogbon, 32, of Holbrook suffered minor injuries.
Hunsaker, employed by Arthur D. Little Co. of Cambridge, a research firm, was working on a top secret rocket fuel tank when the blast occurred at the Tech-Weld Corp. plant during tests.
Hunsaker, son of internationally-known aeronautical engineer Jerome Hunsaker who designed the lighter-than-air ship "Shenandoah," leaves a wife and three children as well as his twin brother, Jerome.
Blast Kills Top Scientist
Burlington, Mass -- UPI -- A top research scientist was killed Thursday night when liquid nitrogen, cooled to 350 degrees below zero in a secret project, exploded from a sausage shaped tank.
The body of the scientist, Dr. James Peter Hunsaker, 44, of Milton, was frozen by the blast.
Foreman Leo A. Carr, 46, of Reading was critically injured while another man, David J. Hogbon, 32, of Holbrook suffered minor injuries.
Hunsaker, employed by Arthur D. Little Co. of Cambridge, a research firm, was working on a top secret rocket fuel tank when the blast occurred at the Tech-Weld Corp. plant during tests.
Hunsaker, son of internationally-known aeronautical engineer Jerome Hunsaker who designed the lighter-than-air ship "Shenandoah," leaves a wife and three children as well as his twin brother, Jerome.
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