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Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant

Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant rather than just read about it. In short: Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant is an abandoned industrial complex located approximately two miles east of downtown Burlington's commercial district in Alamance County, North Carolina. Built in 1927, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Reference excerpt

Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant is an abandoned industrial complex located approximately two miles east of downtown Burlington's commercial district in Alamance County, North Carolina. Built in 1927, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

The Tarheel Army Missile Plant was constructed in 1927 as a synthetic fabric rayon manufacturing plant for the A.M. Johnson Rayon Mills, Inc. The company failed in marketing their rayon product to the textile weaving plants in the Burlington vicinity. As a result, the plant was renamed the Carolina Rayon Mills, Inc and a new management was brought in. But, this reorganization failed to improve the company's financial situation, and eventually the plant was closed in November 1931. From 1931 until 1942, the plant remained mostly vacant. It was used for various short-term purposes, including tobacco warehousing and automobile storage. But, during World War II, Detroit-based architect Albert Kahn's firm designed Building 4 to accommodate Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation manufacturing line to support war effort. After World War II, in 1958, the plant was leased to the Western Electric Company, for research, engineering, production, and refurbishment of missile systems and components. But, the plant was under the operational control of the US Army's MICOM, which used to be a major subcommand of DARCOM . The whole complex is spread over a 32-acre site, and has 23 buildings that once provided approximately 700,000 square feet of usable manufacturing and assembly space. Currently, the complex houses Good Samaritan Super Thrift Store. The site has become a “superfund” clean-up site since PFAS and other dangerous contaminants were found at and in the groundwater surrounding the site in east Burlington. Tests revealed PFOS, PFOA, PFBS, PFNA, and PFHxS in the analytical results. Local community advocates want the site’s cleanup to be done with neighbors’ best interests in mind.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant

In research: Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Alamance County, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs, Buildings and structures completed in 1927, Buildings and structures in Burlington, North Carolina, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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