{"id":10194,"date":"2023-07-21T09:25:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=10194"},"modified":"2023-08-04T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:05:06","slug":"shes-everything-hes-just-building-the-atomic-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/shes-everything-hes-just-building-the-atomic-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"These 6 books detail the key role of engineering in both of this weekend\u2019s blockbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You may have heard there are a couple of big movies coming to theaters this weekend: Barbie<\/em> and Oppenheimer<\/em>. Read up more on these two world-changers before you see the movies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barbara Millicent Roberts (Barbie) was released in 1959 and invented by Ruth Handler. You can read about Handler in Patently Female: from AZT to TV dinners.<\/a> <\/em>(Check out our Untold Stories in STEM<\/a> collection for more inventions by women, people of color, and other historically underrepresented groups in STEM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most strongest parts of the Barbie brand is Mattel’s management of their intellectual property. Learn about patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property in our Patents LibGuide<\/a>. The Lichtenberger Engineering Library is a Patent and Trademark Resource Center! Keep an eye out on our social media channels so you know when our next intellectual property workshop is coming up.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Back to the technical side of things, Barbies are created using a process called rotational molding. If you want to read about that and other plastics, check out Plastics: materials and processing<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’d like to look at some pretty Barbie dresses (who doesn’t?) you can check out Barbie: what a doll!<\/a> <\/em>from our friends over at the Art Library. We can even have it brought over to the Engineering Library for you to pick up using Interlibrary Loan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oppenheimer<\/em> the film primarily focuses on his time working on the Manhattan Project, also known as the project to build the atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project<\/em><\/a> gives the reader an inside look at the project, using writings from the people who worked on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The discoveries of the Atomic Age also had a far-reaching cultural impact. Read more in The Age of Radiance<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We’ll finish things off with a couple of Oppenheimer biographies. Learn about Oppenheimer’s professional relationships in Einstein and Oppenheimer<\/em><\/a>. Oppenheimer lived 21 years after the Trinity Test. Read about the rest of his life in A Life in Twilight: the final years of J. Robert Oppenheimer<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which movie are you going to see first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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