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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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Creator Hercules Incorporated ✖Remove constraint Creator: Hercules Incorporated Place Virginia--Hopewell ✖Remove constraint Place: Virginia--Hopewell Rights No Known Copyright ✖Remove constraint Rights: No Known Copyright Subject Spindles (Machine-tools) ✖Remove constraint Subject: Spindles (Machine-tools) Subject Cotton ✖Remove constraint Subject: Cotton Date 1940 to 1949 ✖Remove constraint Date: <span class='from'>1940</span> to <span class='to'>1949</span>

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    Sheeted cotton linters at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940-Jun-17

    Close-up view of several rolls of sheeted cotton linters mounted on spindles at the Hercules Powder Company's Ethyl Cellulose plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the cotton was…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
    • Subject Chemical industry, Ethylcellulose, Cotton, Spindles (Machine-tools), Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery

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