{"id":36,"date":"2005-11-02T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorktownsquare\/2005\/11\/02\/york-corporation-played-role-i\/"},"modified":"2005-11-02T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T12:27:08","slug":"york-corporation-played-role-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/york-corporation-played-role-i\/","title":{"rendered":"York Corporation played role in Manhattan Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>York Corporation, later York International and Johnson Controls, made essential machinery for the production of plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project.<br \/>\nSo reports longtime Dallastown resident Charlie Raab, who worked as a metallurgist for York Corporation during World War II. The Manhattan Project produced the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945&#8230; .<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nCharlie saw my interview on PCN Sunday night in which I covered some of York Corporation&#8217;s sprawling contributions to World War II.<br \/>\nMy WWII book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkheritage.org\/item.asp?itemid=21\">&#8220;In the Thick of the Fight&#8221;<\/a> details the involvement of several York companies in the Manhattan Project. (See excerpt below).<br \/>\nBut the details were sketchy at the time because of government censorship.<br \/>\nCharlie filled in some of those holes. York Corporation made stainless-steel heat exchangers for the Hanford, Wash., plutonium project. He worked directly on the units as part of the company&#8217;s Methods Department. The plutonium production process heated water, and the York Corporation exchangers used water from the Columbia River as a coolant.<br \/>\nYork Corporation, via William S. Shipley, was a prime proponent nationally of the York Plan, a coordinated system for sharing inventories of skilled workers and machinery to secure massive government contracts.<br \/>\nThe following from &#8220;In the Thick&#8221; might interest you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Soon after the atomic bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, York County residents learned about the involvement of five local companies in the Manhattan Project.<br \/>\nCompanies involved represented a who&#8217;s who of county industry: York Corporation (Yorkco), Read Machinery Co., York Safe &amp; Lock Co., New York Wire Cloth Co. and S. Morgan Smith Co.<br \/>\nYorkco workers later learned that they had fulfilled a $1.5 million refrigeration contract. The contract was listed under &#8220;Manhattan Engineering District,\u203f a deceptive name that shrouded the eventual use of the refrigeration equipment.<br \/>\nOne of Yorkco&#8217;s pre-war engineers served as a member of a special engineering detachment in Oak Ridge, Tenn. William H. Shank assisted in research work on Uranium 235&#8217;s separating processes.<br \/>\nIn one of the local plants working on the Manhattan Project, FBI agents were regularly on duty.<br \/>\nEach evening, they locked blueprints in a vault.<br \/>\nEmployees were sworn to secrecy, although they did not know exactly what they were working on. Even manufacturers, often subcontractors for Delaware&#8217;s duPont Co., lacked a clear understanding.<br \/>\nJapan had not yet surrendered, and the War Department clamped down on the specific part county industries played in the project.<br \/>\nStories from defense plants elsewhere had already revealed too much about work that went on ther<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>For additional York Corporation posts, click <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/made-in-york\/yorkco\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>York Corporation, later York International and Johnson Controls, made essential machinery for the production of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,6,7,36,37,8,25,23,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-all-posts","category-books-reading","category-events","category-explanationscontroversy","category-made-in-york","category-n-y-wirewhistle","category-people","category-war","category-world-war-ii","category-york-safe-lock","category-yorkco"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>York Corporation played role in Manhattan Project - York Town Square<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/york-corporation-played-role-i\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"York Corporation played role in Manhattan Project - York Town Square\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"York Corporation, later York International and Johnson Controls, made essential machinery for the production of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/york-corporation-played-role-i\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"York Town Square\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2005-11-02T12:27:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim McClure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@JamesMcClure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim McClure\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/york-corporation-played-role-i\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/york-corporation-played-role-i\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jim McClure\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b48a19c4bb41c9ee494a3eb75485cdd0\"},\"headline\":\"York Corporation played role in Manhattan Project\",\"datePublished\":\"2005-11-02T12:27:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/york-corporation-played-role-i\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":424,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Archives, all posts\",\"Books &amp; reading\",\"Events\",\"Explanations\\\/controversy\",\"Made in York\",\"N.Y. 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