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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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Model E2 Oxygen Analyzer Operating Instructions and Technical Information
- Bulletin 203-A
- 1960s
Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman Instruments’ oxygen analyzers ended up doing such diverse jobs as monitoring astronauts’ respiration, maintaining packaged food safety,…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Oxygen--Measurement, Oxygen--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model 150 Ultramicro Analytical System
- 1960s
Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…
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Beckman Model 190 and 190B Microcalorimeters
- 1960 – 1979
Calorimeters measure the amount of heat involved in chemical reactions and some other processes.
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Beckman Zimm Viscometer
- 1960 – 1979
Viscometers measure viscosity, the resistance of fluids to flow or stress (this could also be thought of as a liquid's thickness).
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Beckman Model 144 UV Photometer
- 1950 – 1979
Photometers measure the intensity of light or optical properties (like illuminance and fluorescence) of surfaces and solutions.
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Beckman Model L2-65B and Model L2-75B Centrifuges
- 1960s
Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…
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Bendix MA-2 Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer with female model
- 1960s
General view of a Bendix MA-2 Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer with a female model. The Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (TOFMS) was the flagship analytical instrument of the Bendix Corporation.
Mass spectrometry is an…
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Beckman Model 777 Oxygen Analyzer
- Circa 1962
Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman Instruments’ oxygen analyzers ended up doing such diverse jobs as monitoring astronauts’ respiration, maintaining packaged food safety,…
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Beckman Model DU Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer
- 1960
The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in 1940, when the company was still called National Technical Laboratories. Spurred by employee Howard Cary (who had previously been involved in pH meter…
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Arnold Beckman with others
- Undated
- 1953
- 1955-Sep-15
- 1957-Oct-11
- 1961-Jan
- 1982
- 1987-Mar-23
The photographs depict Arnold Beckman at a variety of meetings and events. Identified individuals include Arnold Beckman, P. Dodds, V. Rossetti, Robert T. Sheen, W. G. Brombacher, Taylor Fletcher, Jack Bishop, William…
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Unidentified facilities tour
- 1960s
Arnold Beckman and unidentified men tour a facility, including a room that is apparently part of the Assembly Department.
- Photographer Harmon, Larry
- Subject Beckman, Arnold O., Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model E2 Oxygen Analyzer
- 1960s
This series of photographs includes the instrument, photographs depicting individual components, and single photographs of some of those components: the mirror subassembly, suspension unit housing subassembly, wiring,…
- Photographer Armstrong & Hess
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Oxygen--Measurement, Oxygen--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Arnold Beckman visits to international subsidiaries
- Undated
- 1959-Aug-07
- 1962
The photographs document Arnold Beckman's visits to international subsidiaries. Identified individuals include Suzko Tomono in Japan and Mary Brunton, Jean Fortune, Jessie Rodden, Myra Milne, and Dave Dryburgh in…
- Photographer John Leng & Company, Ltd.
- Subject Employees, Beckman, Arnold O., Beckman Instruments, Inc., Women employees