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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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    Heat treatment tank at Hercules Brunswick plant

    • Circa 1960-Jul

    General view of several employees using a crane to move a heat treatment tank in preparation for the expansion of rosin-making facilities at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer Tharp, Gil
    • Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Cranes, derricks, etc., Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Machinery
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    Foam house facility at Hercules Brunswick plant

    • Circa 1960-Jul

    General view of safety inspector John Cloer at work in the foam house at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia, with view of assorted fire-fighting and fire-suppression apparatus. One of two Hercules…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer Tharp, Gil
    • Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies, Machinery
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    Acetylene cutting torch in use at Hercules Brunswick plant

    • Circa 1960-Jul

    General view of boilermaker Hubbie H. Hattaway operating an acetylene cutting torch in the machine shop at the Hercules Powder Company plant located in Brunswick, Georgia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer Tharp, Gil
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Machinery, Welding
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    Extractor tank in use at Hercules Brunswick plant

    • Circa 1960-Jul

    General view of employee Edward Newmans clearing spent wood chips from an extractor tank at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules plants specializing in naval stores, the Brunswick…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer Tharp, Gil
    • Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Extraction apparatus, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, African Americans, Machinery
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    Rosin solution evaporator at Hercules Brunswick plant

    • Circa 1960-Jul

    General view of Stan Fenelon (left), Pexite rosin and refinery supervisor, and Clarence Darley (right), day relief operator, examining the rosin solution evaporator apparatus at the Hercules Powder Company plant in…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer Tharp, Gil
    • Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Evaporators, Corporations, Naval stores, Machinery

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