{"68763":{"#nid":"68763","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ramblin Through Time: A Memento from  the 1996 Olympics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s topic: a prototype of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games torch.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe following excerpt is number 67 on the list \u201c125 Pieces of Tech History,\u201d featured in the September\/October 2010 issue of Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the Institute\u2019s mementos from the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta is a protoype of the torch. Components of the torch were developed by a six-member team at Tech led by then-mechanical engineering professor Sam Shelton, also a Tech alumnus. Equipped with a dual-burner system, the 3.5-pound lighted torch could withstand rain showers and wind up to about 50 mph and held enough fuel to burn for 45 minutes. It was powerful enough that the team was asked to engineer components for the torch that opened the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia \nTech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s \ntopic: a prototype of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games torch.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s topic: a prototype of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games torch."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2011-07-11 14:04:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:44","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68764":{"id":"68764","type":"image","title":"1996 Summer Olympic Games Torch Prototype","body":null,"created":"1449177201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:21","changed":"1475894597","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:17","alt":"1996 Summer Olympic Games Torch Prototype","file":{"fid":"193352","name":"torch.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/torch_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/torch_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":642287,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/torch_0.jpg?itok=TxPgCqUC"}}},"media_ids":["68764"],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13636","name":"1996 Summer Olympic Games"},{"id":"13414","name":"Ramblin Through Time"},{"id":"13637","name":"torch prototype"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}