[Amps] Water cooled amp question

[Will Matney]

Here was from the net. Sorry for being off topic but couldnt resist.

>When was ethylene glycol first produced in the US?
>McElroy obtained a series of patents on ethylene glycol manufacture
>beginning in 1915. The Commercial Research Company developed the process
>to produce ethylene glycol to a semi commercial scale in 1917 and
>continued operation in Flushing, LI until 1920. While the use in
>antifreeze was foreseen at that time, the chief use was in the
>manufacturing of explosives. Dr Curme Jr. at the Mellon Institute in
>Pittsburgh, Pa developed in 1920 a commercial method to synthesize
>ethylene oxide, ethylene glycol and others for the Pres-O-Lite Company.
>The first commercial plant in the US was in South Charleston, Va. in 1925.
>US Patent 1,213,308 was issued to Hibbert for the use of ethylene glycol
>for lowering the freeze point of water in automobile cooling systems.
>Following its first manufacture of glycol in a large commercial scale in
>1925 Carbide sold small amounts of uninhibited glycol. Three years later
>research revealed that untreated ethylene glycol could become corrosive to
>the cooling system metals. From this time on the major participants in the
>antifreeze coolant market place adapted the corrosion package to meet the
>changing engine and cooling requirements.

>http://www.acustrip.com/faq.html

Actually it says South Charleston, Va. but that aint right, it's West Virginia. Why can't some folks see there's two Virginias and have been since the civil war! Over in WV, you ask them where they're from and they'll say, West-By-God-Virginia. Anyhow, it happened right after WWI so it shows the plant was there most likely before or right at WWI. That's when I remember them saying chemical valley came to life.

This is way off topic so I'll hush now. Just figured some would like to know some history on anti-freeze.

Best,

Will



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On 3/5/05 at 8:53 AM Will Matney wrote:

>Didn't think it went back that far. However, that Dupont plant has been
>there ever since dirt too. The 1940's was a guess but the more I remember,
>seems like that actually fired up back during WWI maybe or before as the
>town of Dupont is an old one. Along the Kanawaha river which goes through
>Charleston, WV. and dumps into the Ohio river, is where "chemical valley"
>sprang up. During the Civil War, places like Nitro, WV. sprang up making
>explosives and there all along that river. South Charleston was the home
>of Union Carbide, and we all remember Baupal India. Forgive the spelling
>on Baupal. Every 1-2 miles up there are large chemical plants and where a
>lot of the ordinance plants once were. The Kanawaha dumps out in the Ohio
>river about 40 miles above my house. Then, the Ohio is a stones throw away
>(be fishing in it in 10 minutes). That's the very reason nobody can eat
>any fish out of the rivers here. This has me curious now, I'll have to do
>some history work.
>
>Will
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>On 3/5/05 at 8:34 AM G3rzp at aol.com wrote:
>Glycol/water mixtures were in use as antifreeze in aircraft cooling
>systems well prior to WW2. Examples were (are?) Spitfires and Hurricanes,
>among others.
>
>73
>
>Peter G3RZP
>
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