STORY OF THE BOY WHO INVENTED TELEVISION
Steve: No, never apparitions, but I did have a strange dream soon after joining the fusion team, and saw a hole in the ground with an intense light coming from it and Dr. Farnsworth’s face was lit up.
WN: Did your dream occur before or after the pit lab was constructed?
Steve: The dream happened about six months before the pit and it was before I knew they were going to dig it, it was fourteen feet deep and had to be hand dug because we couldn’t get heavy equipment inside the cave lab. After the pit was dug, local contractors brought in large reinforced concrete blocks two foot long, by one foot square, and laid two courses wide and two high around the top of the pit and staggered the joints. Next we had a large stainless hood with a fan in it constructed directly above the pit that exited through the roof to evacuate gases.
WN: What gasses?
Steve: When hydrogen nuclei are fused together it produces helium; it emits gamma rays, x-rays, and neutrons not to mention the nitrogen and nitric acid cracked from the air by ultra-high-voltage. I probably missed some other things too, but my area of expertise is power supplies and not gasses! At that time, I was working four hours in ITT’s Standards Lab and four hours at the cave and pit labs.
WN: Why did the fusion project need a pit?
Steve: Nobody new exactly what would happen when the poissor’s temperature reached the hundreds of millions of degrees necessary to begin fusion? Tension always filled the air whenever Phil got near the upper parameter of the power supply, and especially when he was going for a record neutron count. We had men ready at all the shut offs and especially the dive valve, but most of us secretly feared things might happen faster than humans could react and if they did; it might cause a real liability problem for the company and our widows. Who could forget that ominous hum that filled the air? We vibrated from our feet to our teeth and more times than not, components exploded before we achieved the upper ranges of power. Those explosions caused every body except Phil to bolt for cover. Phil wanted to move the fusion lab to a desert far away from any human population, but funding wouldn’t permit that. We all knew random collateral damage could occur, but in the name of science and progress, we accepted that ugly fact and did everything within reason to avoid accidents. None of us liked subjecting other Farnsworth-ITT personnel or the neighbors to danger, but Admiral Furth and the rest of our team’s top priority was moving the fusion project forward, besides fusion is beyond most people’s comprehension and so are it’s risks.
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