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Impeller Creation at the Fabrication Shop

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A mechanic and apprentice work on a wooden impeller in the Fabrication Shop at the NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The 260-person Fabrication Division created almost all of the equipment and models used at the laboratory. The Technical Services Building, referred to as the “Fab Shop”, contained a number of specialized shops in the 1940s and 1950s. These included a Machine Shop, Sheet Metal Shop, Wood and Pattern Shop, Instrument Shop, Thermocouple Shop, Heat Treating Shop, Metallurgical Laboratory, and Fabrication Office. The Machine Shop fabricated research equipment not commercially available. During World War II these technicians produced high-speed cameras for combustion research, impellers and other supercharger components, and key equipment for the lab’s first supersonic wind tunnel. The Wood and Pattern Shop created everything from control panels and cabinets to aircraft model molds for sheet metal work. The Sheet Metal Shop had the ability to work with 0.01 to 4-inches thick steel plates. The Instrument Shop specialized in miniature parts and instrumentation, while the Thermocouple Shop standardized the installation of pitot tubes and thermocouples. The Metallurgical Laboratory contained a control lab for the Heat Treating Shop and a service lab for the NACA Lewis research divisions. The Heat Treating Shop heated metal parts to optimize their physical properties and contained a Precision Castings Foundry to manufacture equipment made of heat resisting alloys.

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grc glenn research center impeller creation impeller creation fabrication shop shops sheet metal shop fabrication shop instrument shop thermocouple shop machine shop pattern shop heat equipment metallurgical laboratory fab shop naca lewis flight propulsion laboratory work naca lewis research divisions research equipment fabrication division fabrication office wood parts industrial facilities machine shops nasa
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21/10/1950
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grc glenn research center impeller creation impeller creation fabrication shop shops sheet metal shop fabrication shop instrument shop thermocouple shop machine shop pattern shop heat equipment metallurgical laboratory fab shop naca lewis flight propulsion laboratory work naca lewis research divisions research equipment fabrication division fabrication office wood parts industrial facilities machine shops nasa