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Heat treatment tank at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of several employees using a crane to move a heat treatment tank in preparation for the expansion of rosin-making facilities at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Cranes, derricks, etc., Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Machinery
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John Cloer at work in foam house facility at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of safety inspector John Cloer at work in the foam house at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia, with view of assorted fire-fighting and fire-suppression apparatus. One of two Hercules…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies, Machinery, Cloer, John
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Hubbie H. Hattaway operating acetylene cutting torch at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of boilermaker Hubbie H. Hattaway operating an acetylene cutting torch in the machine shop at the Hercules Powder Company plant located in Brunswick, Georgia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Machinery, Welding, Hattaway, Hubbie H.
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Edward Newmans clearing extractor tank at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of employee Edward Newmans clearing spent wood chips from an extractor tank at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules plants specializing in naval stores, the Brunswick…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Extraction apparatus, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, African Americans, Machinery, Newmans, Edward
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Stan Fenelon and Clarence Darley examining rosin solution evaporator at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of Stan Fenelon (left), Pexite rosin and refinery supervisor, and Clarence Darley (right), day relief operator, examining the rosin solution evaporator apparatus at the Hercules Powder Company plant in…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Evaporators, Corporations, Naval stores, Machinery, Darley, Clarence, Fenelon, Stan
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Gascoyne Laboratories facility in Baltimore, Maryland
- 1970s
Close-up view of chemist Francis Ptak holding a rack of Nessler tubes at a Gascoyne Laboratory facility located in Baltimore, Maryland. A Perkin-Elmer automated, multi-element spectrophotometer is visible in the…
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Triton kettle at Rohm and Hass facility in Bridesburg
- 1955-Aug
General view of a Triton kettle located in Building 26 of the Rohm and Haas Company chemical manufacturing plant in Bridesburg, a neighborhood located along the Delaware River in the Northeast section of Philadelphia,…
- Creator Of Work Rohm and Haas Company
- Subject Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Rohm and Haas Company, Corporations, Machinery
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Lumetron Photoelectric Colorimeter Model 400-A
- 1940s
Electric-powered meter with instructions housed in wooden box. Movable components within box: two (2) slide glass filters (1 with red, green, and blue slides; 1 with orange, green, and blue slides); one (1) encasing to…
- Manufacturer Photovolt Corporation
- Subject Colorimetry--Instruments, Photovolt Corporation
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Total immersion mercury thermometer
- 1800s
A: Bulb containing mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. Thermometer has Celsius scale with 20-30 degree range with major divisions every 1 degree and minor divisions every 0.1 degree.
B: Protective…
- Subject Temperature measurements, Thermometers
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Mercury thermometer
- 1800s
A: Bulb containing mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. Thermometer has Celsius scale with 0-100 degree range.
B: Protective cardboard tube for the thermometer (not digitized).
Partial immersion…
- Subject Temperature measurements, Thermometers
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Vertical retort and wood loading conveyor
- 1949
Two views of the vertical retort and wood loading conveyor at the Cliffs Dow wood sawmill and distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the…
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Wood storage at Cliffs Dow sawmill in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
General view of a section of the wood storage at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. The employee visible in the photograph is unidentified.
Seeking a source of raw…
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Wood storage at Cliffs Dow sawmill in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
General view of an unidentified employee standing on top of a pile of logs at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. An Insley Excavator is visible on the right-hand side of…
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Wood storage at Cliffs Dow sawmill in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
General view of an unidentified employee standing on top of a pile of logs at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. An Insley Excavator is visible on the left-hand side of…
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Sawmill at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
Elevated view of the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan taken from the perspective of the vertical retort, with view of wood storage in background. Seeking a source of raw…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Wood distillation, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery
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Hot pond and sawmill conveyor at Cliffs Dow plant
- 1949
General view of three unidentified employees poling and transferring logs from a hot pond to the washer and sawmill conveyor at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Invented around…
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Vertical retort and wood loading conveyor
- 1949
General view of the vertical retort and wood loading conveyor at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Providing a sense of scale, two unidentified employees are visible in…
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Sawmill at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
General view of an unidentified employee loading logs into a machine in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic,…
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Employee using band saw at Cliffs Dow plant
- 1949
General view of an unidentified employee feeding cants (logs with one or more squared sides) into a band saw in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of…
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Employee filing band saw at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949-Jun
General view of an unidentified employee filing a band saw in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose,…
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Employee filing circular saws at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
General view of an unidentified employee filing circular saws in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic,…
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Crystal puller
- Circa 1964 – 1968
Used to create silicon ingots for use in the semiconductor industry, this crystal puller consists of two main parts, the furnace and the puller: the furnace is cylindrical and located at the bottom of the instrument, it…
- Creator Of Work Lorenzini, Robert E.
- Manufacturer Elmat
- Subject Silicon, Semiconductors
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Production of cellulose gum at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1957-Mar-12 – 1957-Mar-15
General view of the production of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Also known as cellulose gum or tylose powder, CMC is a cellulose derivative commonly used as a…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Employee loading packaged chemical cotton at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1957-Mar-12 – 1957-Mar-15
General view of an unidentified employee loading packages of so-called "chemical cotton" into a boxcar at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Chemical cotton, a type of purified cellulose obtained…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, African Americans, Cellulose, Machinery
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Control panel at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1957-Mar-12 – 1957-Mar-15
General view of a control panel used to manage the continuous bleaching operation, part of the production of so-called "chemical cotton," at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Chemical cotton, a…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery