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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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    Employee operating sorting machine at Hercules Kenvil plant

    • 1919

    General view of an unidentified female 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,…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Industrial efficiency, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Women employees, Machinery
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    Employee operating shell machine at Hercules Kenvil plant

    • Circa 1918

    General view of an unidentified employee operating a machine used to produce shell cartridges used in the manufacture of dynamite at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey. Formed in 1912 as part of an…

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

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