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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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  • Hercules Incorporated12
  • ACME5
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    Employees operating Stern Shredder at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    Two views of an unidentified employee adjusting the Stern Shredder machine at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The shredder was used to process linter sheets of cellulosic fibrous materials, such…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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    Employee inspecting control switches at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of an unidentified employee inspecting control switches at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the control switches were explosion-proof, one…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Employee inspecting hydrochloride rotary furnace at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of an unidentified employee inspecting the Hydrochloride Rotary System at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The system was likely used during the production of so-called "chemical…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Employee inspecting solvent recovery system at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of an unidentified employee inspecting the control board for a Solvent Recovery system at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the system was…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer ACME
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Employee examining control panel at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of an unidentified employee examining a control panel used in the production of ethyl cellulose at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Ethyl cellulose manufactured by the Hercules…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Ethylcellulose, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Employee examining control panel at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of an unidentified employee examining a control panel used in the production of ethyl cellulose at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Ethyl cellulose manufactured by the Hercules…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Ethylcellulose, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Employee working with ethyl cellulose at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    Close-up view of an unidentified employee removing a sample of ethyl cellulose from a machine at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the sampling was one…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Ethylcellulose, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Employee at work in Hercules Ethyl Cellulose plant

    • 1940s

    Close-up view of an unidentified employee transferring ethyl cellulose to a storage bin at the Hercules Powder Company's Ethyl Cellulose plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Ethyl cellulose manufactured by the Hercules Powder…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Ethylcellulose, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Caustic soda weigh-tanks at Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of weigh-tanks for caustic soda and ethyl cellulose at the Hercules Powder Company's Ethyl Cellulose plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, caustic soda and ethyl cellulose…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Scales (Weighing instruments), Ethylcellulose, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Interior view of Hercules Hopewell plant

    • 1940s

    General view of the interior of a portion of the Hercules Powder Company plant facilities in Hopewell, Virginia, with view of assorted industrial apparatus and machinery and several unidentified employees. The Hopewell…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Employee inspecting 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
  • Photographs

    Employee cutting powder strands at Radford Ordnance Works

    • After 1940 – before 1946

    General view of an unidentified female employee cutting strands of .50 caliber powder extruded from a press to the proper length at the Radford Ordnance Works in Radford, Virginia. The Radford Ordnance Works was…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Subject Explosives, Military, Employees, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Explosives, Women employees, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan

    • After 1934 – before 1970

    General view of a section of the interior of the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the Dow Chemical Company joined…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Employees, Industries, Ethylcellulose, Charcoal, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Charcoal industry, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan

    • After 1934 – before 1970

    General view of a section of the interior of the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the Dow Chemical Company joined…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Industries, Ethylcellulose, Charcoal, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Charcoal industry, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Double flask for demonstrating anaerobic fermentation

    • 1939 – 1967 (Date span attributed to photograph)

    Photograph of a double flask used by French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) to demonstrate anaerobic fermentation, as displayed at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Per notations…

    • Creator Of Work Fisher Scientific (Firm), Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895
    • Subject Fermentation--Research, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895, Fermentation, Institut Pasteur (Paris, France), Glassware

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