L.K. Comstock & Company, Inc.
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Timeline
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| 1940s - Comstock performs electrical contracting work on defense plants in St. Louis and Milwaukee. |
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| 1943 - Louis K. Comstock retires. |
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| 1943 - Construction begins on K-25, a uranium processing plant within the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, TN. The plant played a pivotal role in the atomic bomb development during World War II and required massive amounts of electrical power. Approximately 3,000 electricians, or roughly five or six times the number required for an extraordinarily large peacetime project, work on the project. The electrical work requires a huge array of equipment: thousands of pumps, regulators for the gas flow, and complex control instrumentation, and an extensive power distribution system and transmission lines. The project is completed in 1945. |
K-25 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during the final stages of construction, June 1944. |
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| 1945 - Work begins on K-27, another gaseous-diffusion plant completed after WWII. |
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| 1947 - The success of Parkchester leads to two other local urban renewal projects: Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper developments. |
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| 1949 - Comstock participates in a joint venture with several electrical contractors, including Canadian Comstock and Emerson-Comstock of Chicago (two Stewart spin-off companies), to standardize electrical equipment for 750,000 customers in southwest Ontario. Regarded by the company's chairman as "the largest electrical engineering program of its kind in the world," the project requires reconverting electrical equipment from a 25- to 60-cycle frequency. The reconversion involves changing over 6 million items and takes a decade to complete. |
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