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Creative Chemistry Helps the South Serve Industry
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for various pine-based naval stores products manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company, including Toxaphene insecticides, wood turpentine, and synthetic resins. This advertisement appeared in Na…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Turpentine, Hercules Incorporated, Terpenes, Corporations, Naval stores, Gums and resins, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Cutting operation for cross blending of ingredients
- Circa 1949
View of a worker cutting rubber stock from the mixing mill at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. At the laboratory, the mill was used to mix rubber stocks or warm mixed…
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Dagwood Splits the Atom
- 1949
An introduction to radioactivity, explaining atomic structure and how to create a chain reaction, this comic was distributed for free to middle and high school students and was also included as a "freebee" in Gilbert’s…
- Author Musial, Joseph W., 1905-
- Artist Musial, Joseph W., 1905-
- Publisher King Features Syndicate
- Contributor Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970, Dunning, John R. (John Ray), 1907-1975, Heil, Louis Mace, 1903-
- Subject Atoms, Atoms--Study and teaching, Nuclear energy, Nuclear energy--Study and teaching, Comic books, strips, etc., Educational comics, Children's literature
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Delta Cotton Growers: For Aerial Dusting Use Toxaphene
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in Clarksdale Delta Farm News and Memphis Commercial…
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Delta Cotton Growers: This is the Time to Consider Toxaphene
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in Clarksdale Delta Farm News and Memphis Commercial…
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Designed Right...It Sells on Sight!
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Color print advertisement for cellulosic plastics made with plastic molding compounds manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company. The advertisement features a photograph of a young boy using a plastic crossbow toy…
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Dumping of mixed stock from Banbury Mixer
- Circa 1949
View of a worker dumping mixed rubber stock from the Banbury Mixer at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. At the laboratory, the mixer was used to break down and mix rubber…
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Dynamic Test Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station
- Circa 1949
General view of the Dynamic Test Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station showing forced vibration machines and other equipment used to test rubber articles produced at the Station under simulated service…
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Electronically controlled constant rate of load tensile machine
- Circa 1949
General view of an electronically-controlled constant rate of load tensile machine used in the Naval Air Experimental Station's Physical Properties Laboratory. Tensile machines are commonly used to subject materials…
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Employee filing circular saws at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
General view of an unidentified employee filing circular saws in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic,…
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Employee using band saw at Cliffs Dow plant
- 1949
General view of an unidentified employee feeding cants (logs with one or more squared sides) into a band saw in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of…
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Employee using extruder at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1949-Jan
Close-up view of an unidentified employee pouring raw material into the hopper of an extruder in the Plastics Laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. The material is subsequently extruded…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Employees working with General Electric Recording Spectrophotometer
- 1949-Jan
Two views of a General Electric Recording Spectrophotometer in use in the Plastics Laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. The employee visible in the first photograph is identified as…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Spectrophotometry, Stoltenberg, R.A.
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Engineers calendering experimental stocks of rubber
- Circa 1949
View of two engineers, Stanley Bilker (background) and Ralph Harper (foreground), operating the calender sheeting machine at the the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. The…
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Extruder in use at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1949-Jan
Close-up view of an extruder in use in the Plastics Laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. Extruders were commonly used to process and shape a variety of raw materials produced at the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Extruder in use at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1949-Jan
Close-up view of the take-off jig used to control extruded shapes on a National Rubber 2-inch extruder in the Plastics Laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. The employee visible in the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery, Ethylcellulose
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Extrusion of a half-inch diameter hose on tuber
- Circa 1949
View of a worker holding a piece of rubber tubing as it is extruded from the tuber machine in the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. This tuber, a variable speed H.P. Royle…
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Farmers Report: More Meat, More Milk, More Eggs after Spraying with Pestroy
- 1949
Black and white print magazine advertisement for Pestroy insect spray. This ad appeared in The Country Gentleman, April 1949.
- Subject Pesticides, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides, Toxins
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Felix Nakielny working with dimensional stability test cabinet at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1949-Jan
General view of employee Felix Nakielny removing a toilet seat cover from the dimension stability test cabinet used in the Plastics Laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. Per notations…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Plastics--Testing, Nakielny, Felix
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Fertility No. 2
- Circa 1949
A landscape in watercolor, featuring a farm scene with a large tree that spreads its branches across the top of the image. At bottom, a planted field in rows. Superimposed on the landscape is a large glass bottle, a…
- Artist Carr, Hamzeh
- Subject Watercolor painting, Farms, Carr, Hamzeh, Agriculture, Agricultural chemistry, Chemistry, Science in art
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Final blending by passing stock through rolls endwise
- Circa 1949
View of a worker passing rubber stock through the mixing mill at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. At the laboratory, the mill was used to mix rubber stocks or warm mixed…
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First Day Cover commemorating Peace Day in Hiroshima
- 1949
Philatelic cachet is an offset lithograph depicting an atomic model floating above the Earth with the text "Peace Forever" heading the illustration. Designates August 6th as Peace Day in Hiroshima in memoriam of the…
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Georgi Dimitrov Chemical Company scrip
- 1949
In the amount of one thousand, this company scrip issued by Georgi Dimitrov Chemical Company is printed to look like a banknote. Verso of scrip has an illustration of the chemical complex, which is bustling with…
- Publisher Georgi Dimitrov Chemical Company
- Subject Currency question, Chemical industry, Corporations, Bauman, Robert Joel
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Georgia Cotton Growers: Protect Your Crops with Toxaphene
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in Georgia Farm Bureau News.
Formed in 1912 as part of an…
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Gilbert Electric Eye Kit
- 1949
- Manufacturer A.C. Gilbert Company
- Subject Electric apparatus and appliances, Electricity, A.C. Gilbert Company, Electron tubes