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https://github.com/bob-beck/foundation-web/commit/a005fbc9e4...
i want to note that Inferno, the other OS that came from Bell-Labs in the 90s did have a typed shell called alphabet:
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/1/sh-alphabet.html
mayhaps you'll find this interesting.
for that you didn't need much vetting and because the popularity was low nobody cared so much. most likely some servicemen (servicepersons?) submitted the spots.
the typesetting in the pdf is clearly superb to my tastes. there are many ways to present he same dish. i prefer the fancier that can be enjoyed longer.
I'll buy his book. It will go along with many others I've accumulated from that era, such as a 'A Short History of Nuclear Folly'. Atom bombs and planes is what that time was all about, for me.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2690378
(used to intern, and subsequently work there, although not as a chemist, of course. i'm not that smart)
and if you want to pedant that the patent wasn't issued to los alamos nat'l laboratory... well, in '54 things were different :)
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th...
and mentions briefly that hydrazine is produced at los alamos for national security purposes.