Show GERMANY UNDONE BY OWN WEAPON had sold to america secret of making explosive from air BIG NITRATE PLANT RESULTS bum built in eight months it convinces kaiser of his defeat by GARRET SMITH on one of the th moat net romantic mm poa passage ta Is the secret metal history of the mid W war V is the story of how the ordnance de da pertinent part ment of the lifted ed states army made it possible for america until then utterly locking lacking in ammunition and in facilities for or making it to man olfaction nf unlimited quantities licentious of vow pow erful explosives out oat of air and rock mk it was largely tile alie knowledge of this fact that forced germa germany to I imo surrender when the she did the secret was secured from oer get many herself it a a an open 1 bul bu I l ness transaction between baie bui nevi men whereby we apparent ti indred acquired nothing 0 more con military vey the than a proa pro in a tor for malting a high grade its fertilizer known As aa ey id frank sherman sheram washburn h lind ml of flie a group of business men who baught this pm process conceived the germ of the idea in the early nineties while visits tu to south america as aa consulting engineer 1 in connection with ties production and ad shipping of chilean nitrate of I 1 soda 1 nitrogen I IT mP compounds oMs a are se an 1 essential I Partog part of mil all comm commercial com mercal wai fert fertilizers ilise the only all aal labie natural nitrate dap ft in largo ar g a go quantities ft are I 1 in c chile gin in supply 1 9 I ax 1 G geimann which had been taking about one third of the chile chilean nitrates nitrate we was al 1 ready experimenting with ith pro prose processes se for their artificial production in mr me washburn secured in germany crom tile american rights m of the a cyanamid process which had been oriented indented 1 in pr ices abich I 1 that country ry turning air into a weapon by this A plot air which Is a mix to ture of about four fifth flotha nitrogen gas and one fifth 0 gon 1 Is placed 1 in on con and subjected to pre pressure sum still to co it 00 until oo it turns to a liquid then the the nitrogen to Is distilled in much tile the same me manner ner a as alcohol Is separated from water but before tills this nitrogen con tb be used need as a a fertile fertilizer fertiliser lb liser it gmt be e combined ut with th a chemical combination id at too of and ad curb carbon known knew A as calcium irime carbide produced by burning med ordinary it limestone boue 1 in big rotary sun kalns and ad corn bluing it in the electric furnace with ulo carbon supplied in the form of nary coke thus thug produced contains is the elements of aan lure nitrate one as of 1 the ile to most at powerful of modern arpin 0 o bv on one A process prices ammonia I 1 la ex film tile cyanamid cian amid by B a an ot other profesa nitric acid 1 la extracted hormess or from another A ahse hotel batch of this game 1 11 sva 1 murld th thin the ammonia A and d nitric tha acid nold are am combined and there so yon yen have bay ammonium uto nitrate ready for parking packing let into shells shell is with ith tar r the there ar are a three kinds of explosives used for b bursting urs ing shells in modern warfare T tit T picric slid acid and ad ammonium W nitrate itte it te tile the totted states we was oqual equally deficient in raw deiv materials material an and d VISA plants fur for manufacturing nil all three of f these evid explores iles under tile the best beat of c conditions the cost of at either TNT or nitric acid Is about two and ad one hl half f the cost of monel ammonium lual nitrate but the united states was wholly dp depend aal ent upon chilean chelsa nitrate of eoda it as a rotation to raw material for 1 ammonium m me nitrate falth ill the exception of a small bostur don alon of nitrogen from the counis ot of coal the hilean chilean supply was 4 1 I miles mile away anay from NOW new lork lock city by bv WOT v of the pension panama C canal R a end and tile the route ret by any of the he straits t r alt s of mattel magel I 1 lan Is nearly twice A as ine long A record building operation shortly after the war bag began 1 in eu A rule rope tile the german government ant entered eved into the fixation of 1 air nitrogen for fee military on an a vast scale 1 it was not h however wever until the tall fall of 1917 baited that tile the linsted star states g government mance took it up the ordane A department aided it mr life ff 11 liburn 8 compani A to n subsidiary cro corporation tion known as ta the at air nt t corporation with lith mr me washburn as president to act as an goal agent of the go government crummit for ill alie con 11 at on and operation of the air nl 1 cn aratea plant at muscle shoals at ala blure bama this corpo corporation roola P provided corl dol ill the d designs 19 06 erected the equi equipment in lie chemical plants and supervised a all I 1 the other work ork it also operated the camp canant the m toad town and the plant other work ork I 1 la sublet blet to several of the has bell known rg in the united 5 states tat ft church kerr ker company built ulu plant building the camp the permanent city and utilities th the J I 1 aa W hits E engineering 9 I 1 ring C corpora mpr it alon designed and nd built ch the nitrate liters slid add plant th the if W kellogg CO com pany furnished the piping and bum bull ill the th chimneys hArYs on Febri february arv 18 16 lall gr ground no wa was s broken and eight months and eight days later the muscle shoals plant began producing nitrate in that brief p pe r i men lad had completed the plant and ad at around ot it who where not at a be bouw stood before had allsen albea a city of 25 inhabitant 1 I ills plant when in full up operation cation was ready to in provide 13 per par cent at of all 11 to be used by all the allies on ill 11 1 alie allied fronts do during he As z al 11 p I 1 drive arl of 1819 |