Strong Snothetic Material (snowcrete?)

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Title

Strong Snothetic Material (snowcrete?)

Subject

Greenland camps, portraits, people working

Description

Man wearing hood and looking at camera holds small stick with weights hanging from it. Original caption: "MIT scientist W. David Kingery holds 50 pounds with a candybar-sized stick of snothetic material." page 77. Snothetic is likely a spinoff of snowcrete - a mixture of snow and other materials such as sawdust to increase strength.

Creator

MIT

Source

Century: Secret City of the Snows

Publisher

Longmans Canada Limited

Date

Published 1963

Relation

"Century: Secret City of the Snows" by Lee David Hamilton, published 1963 by Longmans Canada Limited, photos by Lee David Hamilton, The Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Eastern Ocean Engineers, Polar Research and Development Center; 96 pages

Language

English

Type

Book

Coverage

Greenland, Camp Century