Plum Brook Ordnance Works Collection 1942-1973 1942-1945

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Plum Brook Ordnance Works Collection 1942-1973 1942-1945

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The Plum Brook Ordnance Works Collection is a part of the Business Collection of the Sandusky Library Archives. Items within the collection span the history of the site as both as the Plum Brook Ordnance Works munitions factory during World War II and later as the Plum Brook Station, a testing and research facility for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 1954 to the present.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Plum Brook Ordnance Works

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On December 30, 1940, the United States War Department entered into a contract with the Trojan Powder Company for the purpose of manufacturing explosives trinitrotoluene (TNT), dinitrotoluene (DNT), and pentolite. Groundbreaking occurred on April 15, 1941 and production started on December 16, 1941. The sprawling plant was located on 9,000 acres of former farmland situated approximately 5 miles south of Sandusky, Ohio. The site produced more than one billion pounds of ordnance throu...

Plum Brook Station (NASA Glenn Research Center)

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