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Holston Ordnance Works, RDX-Composition B Manufacturing Area-Title Sheet - Holston Army Ammunition Plant, RDX-and-Composition-B Manufacturing Line 9, Kingsport, Sullivan County, TN
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Title
Holston Ordnance Works, RDX-Composition B Manufacturing Area-Title Sheet - Holston Army Ammunition Plant, RDX-and-Composition-B Manufacturing Line 9, Kingsport, Sullivan County, TN
Description
Bachmann , Werner E; Tennessee Eastman Corporation; U.S. Department of the Army; National Defense Research Committee; Fraser-Brace Company; Charles T. Main Incorporated; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Holston Defense Corporation; Tompkins, Sally Kress, program manager; Lange, Robie S, project manager; Building Technology Incorporated, contractor; Mack, Robert C, historian; Dennett Muessig, Ryan and Associates Ltd, photographer; MacDonald and Mack Partnership, contractor
Depicted place Tennessee; Sullivan County; Kingsport
Date 1986
date QS:P571,+1986-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER TENN,82-KINPO,2-B- (sheet 1 of 5)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Line 9 is highly representative of the 10 production lines constructed at HSAAP during WWII for the manufacture of the military high explosive Composition B, and its chief ingredient RDX. These buildings embodied the world's first, large-scale, industrial application of the "Bachmann method," which revolutionized the production of RDX by replacing an expensive, labor-intensive batch technology with a cost-efficient, mass-production operation. The HSAAP manufacturing lines also greatly improved on previous procedures for producing Composition B...
  • Survey number: HAER TN-10-B
  • Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: after 1965 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tn0249.sheet.00001a
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