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Employees at work on automatic loading line at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of several employees at work on the automatic loading line for the production of detonators and initiators at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. On the left-hand side of the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery
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Employee conducting destructive range test at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of an unidentified employee using assorted machinery to test the destructive range and effectiveness of detonators and initiators manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant located in Port Ewen, New…
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Production facilities at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of employees at work in a facility used for the production and testing of detonators and initiators manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery
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Automatic press machine at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
Close-up view of an automatic press machine used to fill shells with an explosives charge the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery
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Employee operating automatic precision-assembly station at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of an unidentified female employee operating an automatic precision-assembly station used during the manufacture of detonators and initiators at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. The…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery, Women employees
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Employee inspecting Vibrocaps at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of an unidentified female employee inspecting Vibrocaps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees
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Employee operating Beckman (Berkeley) Time Interval Meter at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of an unidentified employee operating a Beckman (Berkeley Division) Time Interval Meter at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Time Interval Meters were commonly used for a range of…
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Apparatus for production of blasting caps at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of an unidentified employee setting a tray of shells into an apparatus used during the production of blasting caps at Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. The apparatus is likely a press…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery
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Employees testing electric detonators at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of unidentified female employees testing electric detonators manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees
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Kenneth Newell operating press machine at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of employee Kenneth Newell operating a press machine used to fill electric blasting caps with an explosive charge at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. The operation was…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery, Newell, Kenneth
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Assembly line production at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of employees at work assembling Vibrocaps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Assembly-line methods, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Hercules Incorporated
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Raymond Demskie working on rubber mixing pad at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of employee Raymond Demskie preparing explosive powder to be mixed on a rubber mat at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Mixing was performed remotely as an employee operated a series…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Demskie, Raymond
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Display of products manufactured at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of a display featuring dummy samples of a range of detonation-initiating devices manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Products visible on the display board include…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Industrial marketing, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Detonators, Marketing
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Raymond Demskie mixing detonator charges at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of employee Raymond Demskie operating a series of levers to remotely mix explosive powders used in the electric blasting caps produced at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. The levers…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery, Demskie, Raymond
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Elizabeth Bailey working with spooled Vibrocaps at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of employee Elizabeth Bailey applying shunts to spooled Vibrocaps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Bailey, Elizabeth
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Walter Carney working in coiled wire storage at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of employee Walter Carney working in the storage area for coiled wires with attached ignition plugs, a component of the electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Carney, Walter
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Thomas Stauble and Andrew Tubby conducting destructive range test at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of employees Thomas Stauble (left, foreground) and Andrew Tubby (right, foreground) using assorted machinery to test the destructive range and effectiveness of detonators and initiators manufactured at the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Research, Industrial, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Explosives--Testing, Corporations, Explosives, Beckman Instruments, Inc., Machinery, Stauble, Thomas, Tubby, Andrew
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Anna Woods testing electric detonators at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of employee Anna Woods testing special electric detonators manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Explosives--Testing, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Woods, Anna
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Andrew Tubby setting up destructive testing apparatus at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of employee Andrew Tubby setting up an apparatus used for destructive testing of electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Explosives--Testing, Corporations, Explosives, Tubby, Andrew
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Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey
- Circa 1920
General view of employees posed before the exterior of a building at the Hercules Powder Company's smokeless-powder plant located In Kenvil, New Jersey. Established in 1872 by the Atlantic Giant Powder Company, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Explosives, Military, Employees, Chemical industry, Industries, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives
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Employee operating shell machine at Hercules Kenvil plant
- Circa 1918
General view of an unidentified employee operating a machine used to produce shell cartridges used in the manufacture of dynamite at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey. Formed in 1912 as part of an…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery
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Employee operating sorting machine at Hercules Kenvil plant
- 1919
General view of an unidentified female employee operating a machine used to sort time cards at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey. Per an article in the August 1919 edition of the Hercules Mixer,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Industrial efficiency, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Women employees, Machinery
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Experimental station at Hercules Kenvil plant
- Circa 1915
General view of the exterior of the experimental research station at the Hercules Powder Company's smokeless-powder plant located In Kenvil, New Jersey. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, New Jersey--Kenvil
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Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated
This collection consists of a vast array of photographic prints, negatives, slides, and ephemera chronicling the plants, employees, products, advertising, and brand strategies of the Hercules Powder Company (later…
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Isaac Newton's copy of the Preparation of the [Sophick] Mercury for the [Philosophers'] Stone
- Praeparatio Mercurii ad Lapidem per Regulu/am ♂ [Martis] ✱tum [Stellatum] et Lunam, ex MSS. Phi Americani
- After 1670 – before 1678
The manuscript—"On the Preparation of the [Sophick] Mercury for the [Philosophers'] stone by means of the stellate regulus of Mars [i.e. iron] and Luna [i.e. silver] from the Manuscripts of the American Philosopher"—was…
- Author Starkey, George, 1627-1665
- Creator Of Work Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
- Subject Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, Starkey, George, 1627-1665, Alchemy, Alchemy--Early works to 1800
