TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Interior view of Hercules Hopewell plant ID - 5712m726q AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1940/// YR - 1940 AV - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 1, Folder 35 VL - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 1, Folder 35 AN - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 1, Folder 35 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/5712m726q AB - 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 plant produced so-called "chemical cotton," a purified cellulose obtained from raw cotton linters, as well as ethyl cellulose commonly purchased by a variety of public and private industries as a raw material for use in plastics, films, lacquers, and other materials. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified its business to encompass a variety of industrial products, including pine and paper chemicals, synthetics, pigments, polymers, and cellulose. KW - Employees KW - Chemical industry KW - Scientific apparatus and instruments KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Corporations KW - Cellulose KW - Machinery LA - ER -