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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 O'Neill, James J. ✖Remove constraint Creator: O'Neill, James J. Department Archives ✖Remove constraint Department: Archives Format Image ✖Remove constraint Format: Image Subject Hercules Incorporated ✖Remove constraint Subject: Hercules Incorporated Date 1954 ✖Remove constraint Date: <span class='single'>1954</span>

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    Mix house at Hercules Port Ewen plant

    • 1954

    General view of mix house group leader Benny Williams mixing Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) with graphite for use in the electric blasting caps produced at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York.…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer O'Neill, James J.
    • Subject Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Graphite, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery
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    Plastic extrusion machine at Hercules Port Ewen plant

    • 1954

    Close-up view of a plastic extrusion machine used to coat and insulate wires at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. As visible in the photograph, ethyl cellulose was heated and then extruded as…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer O'Neill, James J.
    • Subject Detonators, Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Plastics--Extrusion, Machinery

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