Jumbo Monument, (sculpture).

Jumbo Monument, (sculpture).

Unknown, sculptor.

Jumbo Monument, (sculpture).

Sculpture: steel; Base: red lava rock and concrete.

Sculpture: approx. 10 x 40 x 53 in.; Base: approx. 34 in. x 38 in. x 4 ft.

A fragment of a containing vessel, designed for the first atomic explosion in 1945. The fragment is mounted atop a mortared rock base.

Disaster -- Accident -- Explosion

Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Socorro

Administered by City of Socorro, City Manager, Fisher & School of Mines Road, Socorro, New Mexico 87801

Located Kittrel Park, The Plaza, Socorro, New Mexico

A nearby marker reads: OFFICIAL SCENIC MARKER/JUMBO/This is a fragment from Jumbo, a/huge steel vessel designed to contain the/explosion of the first nuclear device at/the Trinity Site some 35 miles southeast/of here on July 16, 1945. Jumbo was 25 feet/long, 12 feet in di(a)meter, (a)nd weighed/214 tons. Its steel walls we(r)e 14 inches/(t)hick. Although Jumbo was not used in/the tests, it was 800 feet from (g)round/zero at the time and escaped with(o)ut/damage except for a steel supers(t)ructure/ round it which was crumpled by the/blast. Jumbo was used in later experiments/which resulted in the ends being blown/out. This piece of Jumbo is a souvenir/of the worlds first nuclear explosion./Dr. Marvin Wilkening/an observer in 1945.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico survey, 1994.

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