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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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    John Cloer at work in 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, Cloer, John

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