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Nancy Fitzroy's Oral History

Recorded November 17, 1998

Runtime: 1 hour

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Nancy Fitzroy, President

Houston Engineering Scientific Society

October 15, 1987

Runtime: 24 minutes 11 seconds

Nancy Fitzroy on The Podium Show, c. 1985

Runtime: 27 minutes 33 seconds

Friday, October 15, 1999

Runtime: 1 minute 42 seconds

November 10, 1986

Runtime: 2 minutes 38 seconds

October 29, 1986

Runtime: 6 minutes

In this video produced by the Edison Tech Center, Nancy D. Fitzroy talks about her experiences as an engineer at General Electric. Her work included heat transfer research for application in nuclear reactors, gas turbines, spacecrafts, and more. She has encouraged many young women to get into the field of engineering.

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Runtime: 7 minutes 29 seconds.

The Hermes Rocket Project further developed the V2 Rocket in test pits in Luther Woods area just south of Saratoga Lake, near Saratoga Springs, NY. In this video produced by the Edison Tech Center, Dr. Nancy Fitzroy talks about her experiences at General Electric working on the Hermes Project.

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Runtime: 2 minutes 32 seconds

Electrical Engineer Roland V. Fitzroy (1922-2004) worked on the Manhattan Project at Berkeley with Robert Oppenheimer and others after he was sent to Oak Ridge in Tennessee to weed out potential spies in the system. He later went on to do important work for General Electric at KAPL (Knolls Atomic Power Lab) in Schenectady, New York. In this video, produced in 2010 by the Edison Tech Center, TV Anchor Ernie Tetrault speaks with Dr. Nancy Fitzroy about the work her husband did for the war effort.

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Runtime: 7 minutes 9 seconds