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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.

Start Over Creator Hercules Incorporated ✖ Department Archives ✖ Format Image ✖ Subject Chemical industry ✖ Date 1940 to 1949 ✖

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Photographs

Take-off jig 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 Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery, Ethylcellulose
Photographs

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. An unidentified employee is seen pouring raw material into the hopper; the material is…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
Photographs

Two-roll mill in use at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1949-Jan
Close-up view of operator L.F. Strugala using a two-roll mill in the Plastics Laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the two-roll mill was used…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
Photographs

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
Photographs

Milling cutter in use at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1949-Jan
Close-up view of J.P. Drew operating a milling cutter used in the Plastics Laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the cutter was used to cut…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery, Plastics--Testing
Photographs

Two-roll mill at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1949-Jan
Close-up view of operator L.F. Strugala using a two-roll mill in the Plastics Laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the two-roll mill was used…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
Photographs

Charge and Press machine at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1945-Mar
Close-up view of the Charge and Press machine used to fill shells with an explosives charge the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. After the charge was pressed into the bottom of the shells, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Explosives, Military, Detonators, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Military supplies, Corporations, Explosives, Defense industries, Machinery
Photographs

Press machine at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1945-Mar
General view of employee Jim Kennedy operating a press machine used to fill electric blasting caps with an explosive charge at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. The operation was…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Explosives, Military, Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Military supplies, Corporations, Explosives, Defense industries, Machinery
Photographs

Machine shop at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1945-Oct
General view of the machine shop at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York, showing employees at work on a variety of machines, including planers, milling machines, and lathes. Formed in 1912 as part…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Machinery
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Wire-cutting and stripping machine at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1945-Mar
General view of employees Harold Struber (left) and Raymond Leahy operating a wire-cutting and stripping machine at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. During the production of electric blasting…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Explosives, Military, Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Military supplies, Corporations, Explosives, Defense industries, Machinery
Photographs

Automatic shell press at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1945-Mar
General view of employee Joe Bechtold operating a capsule machine used to punch strips of copper into discs during the production of small shells at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Military supplies, Corporations, Defense industries, Machinery
Photographs

Milling machine at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1945-Mar
General view of an unidentified employee operating a milling machine at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Milling machinery, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Milling-machines, Corporations, Machinery, Employees

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