New Feb 1947 Was A Historic Solar Daytime Inward Los Angeles, A Chemical Scientific Discipline Result At An Electroplating Society Leveled The One-Half A Block

killing fifteen people, injuring 151, damaging 116 buildings

Investigators blamed the destruction on a tank of perchloric acid that the plant's original chemist, Robert M. Magee, had been aid at the fourth dimension of the blast. The bodies of Magee as well as his assistant, Miss Alice Iba, were never constitute as well as were believed "blown to bits."

The industrial plant life was managed yesteryear Robert J. O'Connor, boy of the company's founder. O'Connor knew picayune virtually chemistry, as well as thence he had hired Robert M. Magee, 35, who presented impressive credentials. But inwards truth, Magee had been working every bit a foreman at a local dairy as well as was solely an aspiring pharmacist without fifty-fifty a high schoolhouse diploma.

For almost a year, Magee worked on a revolutionary procedure for polishing aluminum, anxiously waiting to move it patented. He was using a mixture of 140 gallons of acetic anhydride, nearly every bit volatile every bit nitroglycerin.

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