TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Employee conducting destructive range test at Hercules Port Ewen plant ID - 5138jf445 AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1962/// YR - 1962 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/5138jf445 AB - General view of an unidentified employee using assorted machinery to test the destructive range and effectiveness of detonators and initiators manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant located 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 - Scientific apparatus and instruments KW - Propellants KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Explosives--Testing KW - Corporations KW - Explosives KW - Machinery LA - ER -