TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Elizabeth Bailey working with spooled Vibrocaps at Hercules Port Ewen plant ID - 2227mq13w AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1960/// YR - 1960 AV - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 38 VL - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 38 AN - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 38 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/2227mq13w AB - General view of employee Elizabeth Bailey applying shunts to spooled Vibrocaps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders. The company's Port Ewen plant produced a range of special detonators designed for military use, as well as construction jobs that required blasts of dynamite, such as the clearing of quarries, mines, and tunnels. KW - Detonators KW - Employees KW - Chemical industry KW - Propellants KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Corporations KW - Explosives KW - Women employees KW - Bailey, Elizabeth LA - ER -