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Assorted valves, pipes, and fittings at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1960-Sep-10
Close-up view of assorted valves, pipes, and fittings at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. Per notations accompanying the photograph, this system, which was used to handle hydrochloric acid, was…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Chemical industry, Valves, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Polyethers, Machinery
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Penton valves and pipes at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1960-Sep-10
Close-up view of solid Penton needle and plug valves, as well as Penton pipes and fittings, at the Hercules Powder Company plant located in Parlin, New Jersey. Penton was a Hercules-branded chlorinated polyether used as…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Chemical industry, Valves, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Polyethers, Machinery
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Separator at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1960-Sep-10
Two views of a separator used to separate carbon tetrachloride and water containing hydrochloric acid at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. The employee visible in the first photograph is…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Polyethers, Machinery
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Valves and pipes at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1960-Sep-10
Close-up view of assorted valves and pipes at the Hercules Powder Company plant located in Parlin, New Jersey. Per notations accompanying the photograph, these valves and pipes were lined with Penton, a Hercules-branded…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Chemical industry, Valves, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Polyethers, Machinery
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Acetylation unit at Hercules Parlin plant
- Circa 1961-Jan
General view of an acetylation unit used in the production of Penton, a chlorinated polyether used as an ingredient in protective coatings for structural steel and other metals, papers, cardboard, and plastics, at the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Machinery
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Employee operating polymerizer and extruder at Hercules Parlin plant
- Circa 1961-Jan
General view of an unidentified employee operating a polymerizer and extruder at the Hercules Powder Company plant located in Parlin, New Jersey. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the polymerizer and extruder…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Polymers, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Polyethers, Polymerization, Machinery
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Extruder at Hercules Parlin plant
- Circa 1961-Jan
General view of a Prodex brand extruder used in the production of Penton, a chlorinated polyether used as an ingredient in protective coatings for structural steel and other metals, papers, cardboard, and plastics, at…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Polymers, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Machinery
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Penton molding operations at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1961
General view of a machine used to mold Penton, a chlorinated polyether used as an ingredient in protective coatings for structural steel and other metals, papers, cardboard, and plastics, at the Hercules Powder Company…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Machinery
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Ring closure reactor at Hercules Parlin plant
- Circa 1961-Jan
General view of a ring closure reactor used in the production of Penton, a chlorinated polyether used as an ingredient in protective coatings for structural steel and other metals, papers, cardboard, and plastics, at…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Machinery
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Analytical Laboratory at Dearborn Chemical Company facility
- 1962 – 1963
General view of employees at work in the Analytical Laboratory at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility located in Chicago, Illinois. The two employees visible in the foreground of the…
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Metrohm E 1009 Spectrocolorimeter
- 1963
A spectrocolorimeter is a form of spectrophotometer that can calculate tristimulus values, or the the light intensity of primary color values in a sample.
- Manufacturer Metrohm AG
- Subject Colorimetry, Spectrophotometry, Colors, Spectrum analysis
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Plastics Laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center
- 1963-Mar-28
Color photograph showing two technicians removing a plastic dome from an unidentified machine in the Plastics Laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center.
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Crystal puller
- Circa 1964 – 1968
Used to create silicon ingots for use in the semiconductor industry, this crystal puller consists of two main parts, the furnace and the puller: the furnace is cylindrical and located at the bottom of the instrument, it…
- Creator Of Work Lorenzini, Robert E.
- Manufacturer Elmat
- Subject Silicon, Semiconductors
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Research chemist in the Aeromaterials laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center
- Circa 1965
Research chemist Stanley Supkis using a distillation apparatus in the Aeromaterials laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center (Philadelphia, Pa.).
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Saran film rolls at Dow facility
- 1965
General view of packaged rolls of saran film at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War II,…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Rubber Laboratory at the National Air Engineering Center
- 1965-Aug-04
General view of the Rubber Laboratory at the National Air Engineering Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. At left, Technician Armand Rindone operates an unidentified machine before a group of observers. The…
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Gascoyne Laboratories facility in Baltimore, Maryland
- 1970s
Close-up view of chemist Francis Ptak holding a rack of Nessler tubes at a Gascoyne Laboratory facility located in Baltimore, Maryland. A Perkin-Elmer automated, multi-element spectrophotometer is visible in the…