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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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    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
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    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
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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
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    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

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