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This digital collection features selected scientific instruments, apparatus, and analytical tools from the Institute's museum as well as photographs, rare-book engravings, and illustrations depicting various types of equipment and machinery found in laboratories, manufacturing plants, and mechanical treatises. Inventions from book wheels to fireballs can be found here, alongside more modern innovations such as Gammacells and Geiger counters.

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    Stern Shredder at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    Two views of an unidentified employee adjusting the Stern Shredder machine at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The shredder was used to process linter sheets of cellulosic fibrous materials, such…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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    Control switches at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of an unidentified employee inspecting control switches at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the control switches were explosion-proof, one…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Machinery
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    Hydrochloride Rotary Furnace at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of an unidentified employee inspecting the Hydrochloride Rotary System at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The system was likely used during the production of so-called "chemical…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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    Solvent Recovery system at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of an unidentified employee inspecting the control board for a Solvent Recovery system at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the system was…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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    Discharging loose pulp at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1945-Mar

    General view of employee W.L. Caricofe, Jr. discharging loose pulp from a dryer at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The loose pulp dryer was likely used to process cellulosic fibrous materials,…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Bales of chemical cotton at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1945-Mar

    General view of employee Johnnie Shands loading bales of so-called "chemical cotton" onto a skid at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Chemical cotton, a type of purified cellulose obtained from…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, African Americans, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Discharging chemical cotton at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1945-Mar

    General view of employee H.M. McClure discharging sheets of so-called "chemical cotton" from a Layboy No. 2 Paper Machine at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Chemical cotton, a type of purified…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Pulping equipment in use at Hercules pilot plant

    • 1945-Mar

    General view of employee Andrew Roberts operating pulping equipment at a Hercules Powder Company pilot plant in Hopewell, Virginia. This pulping equipment was likely used to produce dissolving pulp, also known as…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Dissolution (Chemistry), Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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    Hydraulic press in use at Hercules pilot plant

    • 1945-Mar

    General view of employee Elizabeth Booth operating a hydraulic press in the Viscose Laboratory at a Hercules Powder Company pilot plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Several stacks of viscose, a semi-synthetic fiber, are…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Women employees, Laboratories, Machinery
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    Treating tubs at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of an unidentified female employee inspecting a treating tub used to purify ethyl cellulose at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The Hopewell plant commonly produced ethyl cellulose,…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Women employees, Machinery
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    Experimental Plastics laboratory at Hercules Parlin plant

    • 1945-Jan

    General view of employee Felix G. Nakielny operating a two-roll mill in the Experimental Plastics laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. According to the caption that accompanied this…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery

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