This photo essay, with images found and published by Gisela Mateos & Edna Díaz-Suárez, shows the innumerable contingencies and intertwinements of the Radioisotope Mobile Exhibition (RME), which are part of the mobility of knowledge, in this case radiochemistry and its applications, throughout Latin America. It is a crucial event in the understanding of the internationalization and standardization of the scientific practices of the nuclear age.
Vienna, September 1958: the MRE 1st Unit is presented in a ceremony by Sterling Cole, director of the IAEA.
The backside of the 1st Unit showcasing the flags of the countries that have been visited by the MRE.
The inside of the 2nd Unit, somewhere in Bolivia.
the 2nd Unit, somewhere between Brazil and Bolivia.
The probable road the 2nd Unit took from Santa Cruz to Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Brazilian personel mounting the 2nd Unit on the train, probably at the start of the trip in Bauru.
This photo shows the UM2 unit during its train travel from Rubiaceca to Santa Cruz.
A letter from Obermayer with an illustration that represents the train wreck and the damages sustained by the UM2.
Arturo Vallejo. 7 June 2019, "The materialities of a road trip depicted", STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 26 August 2019, accessed 17 December 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/materialities-road-trip-depicted
The 2nd Unit on a train wagon, probably at the start of the trip in Bauru, Brazil.