Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company, North Plant, 5000 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Summary
Significance: The North Plant housed the second major factory of the Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company. Atwater Kent was an important twentieth-century inventor and manufacturer of radios and electrical components for automobiles. The company was the largest producer of radios in the world in the late 1920s. The plant is roofed with 470,000 square feet of "Super-Span Saw-Tooth" roof trusses patented by Walter Ballinger. Ballinger and his firm contributed significantly to the architecture and engineering fields. Today, the Ballinger firm claims to be the oldest continuously practicing architectural and engineering firm in the United States.
Survey number: HAER PA-306-A
Building/structure dates: 1929 Initial Construction
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office buildings
radio industry
computers
atwater
atwater kent
plant
north plant
wissahickon
wissahickon avenue
philadelphia
philadelphia county
pennsylvania
walter francis ballinger
historic american engineering record
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Ballinger, Walter Francis
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
,
40.02012, -75.17625
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html