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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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    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

    • 1955-Feb-08

    General view of Joseph Maurer pouring ethyl cellulose into the hopper of a plastic extrusion machine at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. In the machine, the ethyl cellulose was heated and then…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Plastics--Extrusion, Machinery

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