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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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    Sorting Machine at Hercules Kenvil plant

    • 1919

    General view of an unidentified employee operating a machine used to sort time cards at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey. Per an article in the August 1919 edition of the Hercules Mixer, time…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Industrial efficiency, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Women employees, Machinery
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    Treating tubs at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of an unidentified female employee inspecting a treating tub used to purify ethyl cellulose at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The Hopewell plant commonly produced ethyl cellulose,…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Women employees, Machinery
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    Hydraulic press in use at Hercules pilot plant

    • 1945-Mar

    General view of employee Elizabeth Booth operating a hydraulic press in the Viscose Laboratory at a Hercules Powder Company pilot plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Several stacks of viscose, a semi-synthetic fiber, are…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Women employees, Laboratories, Machinery
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    Automatic precision-assembly station at Hercules Port Ewen plant

    • 1962

    General view of a female employee operating an automatic precision-assembly station used during the manufacture of detonators and initiators at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. The employee…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery, Women employees

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